Easier to show you than tell you if you have four minutes. OpenAI’s gpt-4 isn’t perfect for this work but with a little prompt engineering and some patience it does a pretty good job. Let me know what you think.

So I have been quiet lately but it’s because I have been building something I think is really, really cool. …

So while I was writing Jarvis I realized that there was an awful lot more I could be doing with OpenAI than just a better job of running my house. …

(Sorry it’s been awhile since I last published; I have been working on the thing that is after Jarvis called “Shelby” and it’s pretty involved.) As I have mentioned before, Jarvis runs on two foundational modules, “Command” and “Query”. Both were a response to some strangely lacking functionality in Siri…

One of the questions I am getting from folks is how Jarvis can do things for me in the future? …

The core functionality in Jarvis with respect to Apple HomeKit is contained in the “Command” and “Query” modules and this article covers the former. Command can do a lot, but here is a quick example: Two quick examples, opening…

As I mentioned in my last post, because HomeKit is complex, and because most HomeKit users are using HomeBridge to add devices and functionality, Jarvis needs a translator. Basically what the “Translator” does is convert the various responses devices give — some return “on” others reply “1”, etc. …

One thing I ran into right away in creating Jarvis is that Apple Shortcuts is sort of a horrible programming language. …