Can a universal app be started via keyboard shortcut or command line

The thread title pretty much says it all. Can a universal app (currently interested in Weather) be started via keyboard shortcut or command line command?

Very useful information. Thank you very much.

Bob Coleman said:

Very useful information. Thank you very much.

I note though that the dragged shortcut seems to work only if on the desktop.

dalchina said:

Given you know the command, you should be able to put that in a script and use Autohotkey to assign a shortcut, for example..
There's probably a simpler way...

Yes, thanks again. I'm using AutoIt rather than Autohotkey, but somewhat the same idea.

dalchina said:

You could do this:

- drag a shortcut off the start menu and assign a keyboard shortcut.

Command line: see
How to start Microsoft Photos from command line?
for an example

Go here in file explorer
%appdata%\..\local\Packages
and you will see a list of others, including Weather

For whatever value it might possibly be to anybody in the future, the above relative to command line boils down to create a command such as

explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

for Photos or

explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

for Weather where the green part is obtained from

%appdata%\..\local\Packages

The new information here is that for Microsoft Edge, the part after the exclamation point has to be MicrosoftEdge rather than App.

I eventually figured this out by examining the dragged shortcuts.