Automating boring stuff with smart devices and IFTTT

How ifttt can help us in our everyday life

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1. Automating boring stuff with smart devices and IFTTT Samat Gaiazov
2. Some boring stuff • Turning lights on in your room after sunset • Turning lights off when your leave your home • Checking if it’s raining or it will rain today • Opening Hodor app to click the button • And more…
3. What can IFTTT offer you IF THIS THEN THAT
4. What can IFTTT offer you IF THIS THEN THAT TRIGGER ACTION
5. Triggers Time Every hour at… Every day at… Every week at… Every month at…
6. Triggers Time Start your morning routine Turn on music with your wake up Remind about something Remind to drink a glass of water hourly
7. Triggers Weather When it is raining outside… If it is sunset/sunrise… Temperature drops below…
8. Triggers Weather Trigger when it is raining/will be raining to take an umbrella Turn on/Change temperature of room lights after sunset Turn on heating if temperature below…
9. Triggers Assistants Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa Trigger anything with your voice Just have to specify the trigger phrase
10. Triggers Twitter Email Finance Instagram GPS Geofencing Many smart devices — basically any available for purchase smart sensor
11. What can IFTTT offer you IF THIS THEN THAT TRIGGER ACTION
12. Actions Webhooks Basically any REST request with Body a Content-Type Header
13. Actions Webhooks Open the main door with Hodor request Control any devices/services which doesn’t have native IFTTT integration
14. Actions Notifications Receive a notification on your device
15. Actions Notifications When there is rainy or too cold outside When Nest security detected something in your home When there is a new specific Instagram/ FB/RSS post
16. Actions Your smart devices Home lights with Phillips HUE, Yeelight, IKEA Tradfri Home temperature with Smart Thermostats (Nest, tado) Any Smart Devices (there is even a Smart Kettle available)
17. Actions Your smart devices Turn on/off lights, change lights colours Adjust home temperature Anything else, depends on how smart is your home
18. Actions Post to Twitter Send Email Stop/Play music Start robot vacuum cleaner Turn on home security
19. So, what can I do? Examples Yeelight LED A++ LED for 25 years Connected to WiFi About 19Eur
20. So, what can I do? Turn on the lights after sunset Change color temperature after sunset/sunrise Turn off the lights when I leave the house
21. So, what can I do? If I click the widget then send request to Hodor
22. So, what can I do? If I say “Hodor open the door” to Google Assistant then send request to Hodor
23. So, what else can I do?
24. So, what else can I do?
25. So, what else can I do?
26. Now it up to you to combine triggers with actions and create your own applets Questions? Thank you for your attention! https://ifttt.com