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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by Hnrobert42 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:21PM (#25279487)
I don’t use Siri for much, and I certainly don’t have it always listening. But I did hack out a useful Shortcut to record my blood pressure and heart rate to Apple Health.

I say, “Add blood pressure <pause> 120 over 80 plus 60.” Then I use the shortcut to parse the string on the / and +, and record it to Health.

The hard part was finding delimiters that Siri would consistently record as a single character. That and realizing I needed a manual review step to make sure Siri didn’t happily pump garbage into my logs.

Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by pimlottc on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:35PM (#25279655)
That sounds useful. What’s the third number, BPM?
Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by Hnrobert42 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:08PM (#25297755)
Right. My blood pressure cuff records systolic, diastolic, and beats per minute. Apple health lets you record all three of those measures.