IFTTT

Has anyone used or played with IFTTT?

I’ve used it for a couple of things:

• notifiers, where I send a web message, and I get notified by a Telegram message (free) or an SMS (only the first few texts are free). It’s possible to send up to three text arguments to Telegram.

• voice control of my central heating system. The heating system in my previous house was just on or off at any particular time, so I did voice control via Amazon Alexa; fun but not actually useful, since the Echo was just across the room from the control box. The new system allows me to set the temperature of each radiator, so in this case Google Assistant wins hands down, as (1) the IFTTT applet parses a text field and a numeric field, which allows me to specify the radiator and the set point within one applet; (2) it’s available on my phone, so I can use it anywhere I have a data connection.

IFTTT is free, and potentially very useful, although there always seems to be a lot of trial and error (very nearly as much error as trial, in some cases!) involved in writing an applet to do exactly what I want.

I’ve written a RISC OS app that sends a web message in response to a Wimp message, where the applet name, key, and up to three arguments can be specified. If it’s of any use to anyone, I’d be happy to release it after I’ve documented it properly.

Has anyone used or played with IFTTT?

First I’ve heard of it, what is the interface, a web page? I am several hours into finding out if I can get a working telegram-cli, it sounds like telegram can do everything from send messages to controlling a RPi.
I have had a Smartphone with google services issues for a few months, and have read where Telegram is an open and more secure app than WhatsApp, and is available for all platforms (forever). It looks like it might compile with gcc and openssl but I am at an early stage. I just found out git source must be used because the zip download doesn’t include the main required directory. It is not the usual lnux fare, maybe it is originally from Android
Probably will have to learn about telegram using the phone or linux.

IFTTT = If This, Then That – a means to create aplets to do all sorts of things, usually to control things (think IoT) or communicate with things, and a huge collection of published applets to do lots of these things.

It’s a web interface, sadly one that NetSurf can’t handle. I’ve always used Firefox on Ubuntu to create and edit my applets.

It’s too diverse to explain in a couple of sentences. I’d recommend anyone to take a look (http://ifttt.com) and have a play.

Re : Has anyone used or played with IFTTT?

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