IFTTT - Why so rubbish?
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If I Google for info on IFTTT I get lots of propaganda about how it lets me automate anything I fancy.
But it's all lies, I can automate a narrow subset of features determined by the various app developers and like it to one narrow condition, also set by the app developers.
I gave used it for a few semi useful things, but every time I try to do what I actually want I run into the fact that it's basically rubbish. Eg, I have a wifi socket and want IFTTT to turn it on if I'm out of the house in the evening. Sounds simple, especially as Tado happily tells IFTTT that I'm away. No, because you can't add conditions or logic. WTF.
I thought maybe I could get around it by using the Date / Time IF to toggle the IFTTT that turns the socket on when Tado is away on and off. But they haven't even managed to add their own app to their own service. Which would have been a simple thing to do to add a lot of extra power as you could nest actions.
So why is it so disappointingly simple? When I look through the recommended actions it's all set a reminder to take the bins out stuff that I can already do without a third party getting involved.
Has anyone found anything genuinely clever to use it for?
But it's all lies, I can automate a narrow subset of features determined by the various app developers and like it to one narrow condition, also set by the app developers.
I gave used it for a few semi useful things, but every time I try to do what I actually want I run into the fact that it's basically rubbish. Eg, I have a wifi socket and want IFTTT to turn it on if I'm out of the house in the evening. Sounds simple, especially as Tado happily tells IFTTT that I'm away. No, because you can't add conditions or logic. WTF.
I thought maybe I could get around it by using the Date / Time IF to toggle the IFTTT that turns the socket on when Tado is away on and off. But they haven't even managed to add their own app to their own service. Which would have been a simple thing to do to add a lot of extra power as you could nest actions.
So why is it so disappointingly simple? When I look through the recommended actions it's all set a reminder to take the bins out stuff that I can already do without a third party getting involved.
Has anyone found anything genuinely clever to use it for?
It turns my Bluetooth off when I disconnect from a device. The only device I connect to is the obd reader in the car and that's only when I want to clear an engine warning light.
To be fair it's an El cheapo Peugeot so that's every couple of days.
Also tells me if it's going to rain tomorrow. Handy in Ireland...
To be fair it's an El cheapo Peugeot so that's every couple of days.
Also tells me if it's going to rain tomorrow. Handy in Ireland...
ooo000ooo said:
It turns my Bluetooth off when I disconnect from a device. The only device I connect to is the obd reader in the car and that's only when I want to clear an engine warning light.
To be fair it's an El cheapo Peugeot so that's every couple of days.
Also tells me if it's going to rain tomorrow. Handy in Ireland...
That's my point, none of that is particularly clever, the Bluetooth thing is android to android, so it's just a missing feature and the weather thing can be done from a weather app already. Yes it's good, but it's very nature and wouldn't work for most people.To be fair it's an El cheapo Peugeot so that's every couple of days.
Also tells me if it's going to rain tomorrow. Handy in Ireland...
You can tell it to open Google maps navigation when you connect to as Bluetooth device. So you could have it navigate to work when you getting in the car. Except it triggers ever time my watch connects or anything else because you can't choose a device. And you can only run one location, and can't convince it with times or start locations so it navigates to work in the morning and home in the evening. Ideally only when my calendar didn't have non-working day in it.
That would be clever.
The one thing that I've found a use for is turning off my amplifiers if I no one is home, but so many things would be useful if only it had more flexibility.
Yeah, I came across a few things like that, sounds fun but I don't have the time to learn all that stuff right now. Maybe one for the future. Stringify looks better, though it doesn't have Tado support, so I need to hope I can use IFTTT for the Tado part. IE it won't work.
So frustrating when it should be a simple fix to make a lot of this work.
So frustrating when it should be a simple fix to make a lot of this work.
Just dipping my toe in the water with this, before I waste time on something that is NOT possible, can this be done?
I used Google Maps for my route to work, and it provides me with an eta.
Can I get Google Home to announce at 730 am, my eta to work, based on it checking Google maps for traffic problems and thereby giving me a heads up to leave early?
I used Google Maps for my route to work, and it provides me with an eta.
Can I get Google Home to announce at 730 am, my eta to work, based on it checking Google maps for traffic problems and thereby giving me a heads up to leave early?
Trevatanus said:
Just dipping my toe in the water with this, before I waste time on something that is NOT possible, can this be done?
I used Google Maps for my route to work, and it provides me with an eta.
Can I get Google Home to announce at 730 am, my eta to work, based on it checking Google maps for traffic problems and thereby giving me a heads up to leave early?
You can do that from the Google Home App with a Routine, though yo have to ask Home to run the routine. Google updated their Clock app so dismissing the alarm can run a routine too, which is a more nuanced trigger than your 7:30am. But the clock app doesn't have the feature for me, no idea why.I used Google Maps for my route to work, and it provides me with an eta.
Can I get Google Home to announce at 730 am, my eta to work, based on it checking Google maps for traffic problems and thereby giving me a heads up to leave early?
I think IFTTT has a clock in it now. If not Stringify will do it.
I'm still using a combination of IFTTT and Stringify to make things work properly, but it does seem to be getting better.
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