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Tammster

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Jun 23, 2010
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My husband & I both work from home & we stream music all day on our Sonos airplay 2 speakers. Whenever one of gets a call we need to pause the music, and then start again when the call is over. I thought it would be SO convenient to create a shortcut to assign to the action button so I can then just click the button on my watch to pause & restart the music. However, I'm having trouble. Here's what I've tried:
1. I created a shortcut to play /pause those speakers but it gives me an error message (see picture).
2. I have the Soro app on my phone and I can set an action to play/pause those speakers. It works on my phone but not on my watch, I guess because that app doesn't have a watch version.
3. I have the LYD app on my phone & watch but it doesn't seem I can use that app in a shortcut.
4. I've searched for other apps that are available on both the watch & in shortcuts & can't find anything.

Any ideas?
 

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This is an awesome use of the action button. None of the default actions do much for me so I am interested to see all of the cool shortcuts people come up with.
 
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I want my action button to be able to toggle wifi on and off on my phone (not my watch). I downloaded a shortcut that does toggle wifi. But.... when I set my action button to it, it toggles the wifi on the watch and not my phone. is there a way to specify which device the wifi is toggled on?
 
I want to use it for my open/close garage door shortcut, but can't because my 11 month old baby will hit the button without me noticing.
 
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