Antlr Antlr’s Siri actions are in the Shortcuts app too. Put them together with Apple’s apps and a few others, and a tap on a ladder starts your sit, a double tap on the back of your phone logs a deer, and your family knows where you’re sitting.
Open one on your iPhone and tap Add Shortcut. Antlr needs to be installed. Anything personal, like which stand or who to text, the Shortcuts app asks you for the first time you run it.
Starts a sit at your default stand and texts someone where you are.
Ends your sit and texts someone that you’re out of the woods.
Pick doe, buck, group, deer or nothing moving. It logs it and buzzes once.
Type the yardage and get your hold from your range card, without saying a word.
Checks the wind at a stand and texts Antlr’s answer to your hunting partner.
Today’s hunt plan, which stand fits right now, and when daylight for shooting starts.
Which stand fits tomorrow morning, and tomorrow’s hunt plan.
Who has your gear, and what’s due for replacement.
For iPhone with iOS 17 or later. The first run asks to allow Antlr’s actions, and Messages asks who to send to. To run one on a schedule or when you arrive somewhere, add it to an automation in the Shortcuts app.
Stick a cheap NFC tag on each ladder or blind. Make an automation: when that tag is tapped, start a sit at that stand and turn on your Hunting Focus. Set it to run right away, and one tap of the phone against the tag starts the sit.
When you arrive at the stand’s location, start a sit there, turn your screen brightness down and turn on your Hunting Focus. Give the location a generous radius: GPS under a canopy can be off by a lot.
A “Going in” shortcut starts a sit at Big Oak and texts your spouse “In Big Oak, out by dark,” with a map link to where you are. A matching “Coming out” shortcut ends the sit and sends “Out of the woods.”
Start the sit and post “Dale’s in Ridge ladder” to the camp group text. That’s for the people who aren’t on Antlr. Anyone in your Antlr camp already sees who’s sitting where on the Camp widget.
In Settings, Accessibility, Touch, Back Tap, set a double tap on the back of the phone to log a deer and a triple tap to log a buck. It works with the screen on, and you never look at it.
A shortcut that asks Doe, Buck, Group or Nothing, logs your pick and vibrates to say it’s done. On an iPhone with an Action button, that’s one press and one tap. Or put Antlr’s Log a Deer control on the button itself.
A shortcut that brings up the number pad and asks “Yards?”, then asks Antlr for the hold at that distance with your rifle or bow. The hold comes from your own range card, and you never say a word.
When your Hunting Focus turns on, start a sit. When it turns off, end it. Add Antlr’s filter to that Focus and only hunt alerts get through while you sit: last light, leave camp, the blood-trail wait.
When your alarm is stopped, Antlr reads today’s hunt plan, the wind at your stand and which stand fits right now. Add Apple Weather’s current conditions and Maps’ travel time to the parking spot.
At 8:30 PM, Antlr says which stand fits tomorrow morning and reads tomorrow’s hunt plan. The shortcut adds tomorrow’s forecast and turns on your 4:30 AM alarm.
When your Hunting Focus turns off after dark, end the sit and turn on the porch light and the heater at camp through the Home app.
When CarPlay connects before dawn, Antlr tells you the wind at your stand and when daylight for shooting starts, through the car’s speakers.
Every Friday evening, “Ask Antlr who has my gear,” so the climber or rangefinder you lent out comes back before the weekend hunt.
On September 1, “Ask Antlr what needs replacing” to catch a harness or lifeline past the maker’s replacement date before your first sit.
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