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Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by cstuder »

kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I have a couple of long-form RSS feeds which aren't suitable for consumption in an average RSS readers. New items in these feeds get automaticall added to my Instapaper account.

Plus a lot of social media aggregation into our team Slack channel, so I don't need bother checking Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc. everytime a collegue posts something somewhere.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by lmm »

cstuder wrote: post #61
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I have a couple of long-form RSS feeds which aren't suitable for consumption in an average RSS readers. New items in these feeds get automaticall added to my Instapaper account. Plus a lot of social media aggregation into our team Slack channel, so I don't need bother checking Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr etc. everytime a collegue posts something somewhere.

> I have a couple of long-form RSS feeds which aren't suitable for consumption in an average RSS readers. New items in these feeds get automaticall added to my Instapaper account.

Interesting - I find long-form content is usually easier to read in Feedly than in whatever website it's coming from.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by mpfundstein »

k2xl wrote: post #45

I love IFTTT, but one of the biggest missing features is the ability to do If This ... OR this ... Then That... And That And That. Unfortunately, all of the recipes are one dimensional - so you can't build recipes like "When my nest thermostats senses someone is nearby AND it is 8AM-10AM in morning and it is December or January then turn on the heat on. If IFTTT implemented this feature there would be a TON of killer…

Hey. You can check out www.triggi.com . We support multiple conditions and actions.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by mpfundstein »

klinquist wrote: post #16
Splendor wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure but I'm not happy with the change. I thought they did a great job of making conditional logic easy for the masses through their 'recipes'. The new applets hide what little complexity the service previously had and now its just confusing to me.

If you're on iOS (Android soon), try Stringify. Multiple ANDs/ORs/cascading actions, etc *I work for Stringify

Or Triggi (www.triggi.com) . Direct competitor to Stringify from the NL. Disclaimer: I work there as Creative Technologist

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by drusepth »

kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

Not sure if I'd call it "non-trivial" (as I'm using it to make other code more trivial), but I use IFTTT to ease up on the coding required to fully automate ongoing background personas for bots/AIs.

Rather than coding boring frameworks to post to Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/500px/Wordpress/etc (or spending time implementing/maintaining existing libraries), I just hit my web APIs to fetch what to post and post it through IFTTT. Sucks that some destinations (e.g. Facebook) have the source app it posted through ("IFTTT") at the top, but most people overlook/ignore it.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

Pamar wrote: post #51
oddlyaromatic wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tried it out for various things but the one I rely on most is "call and leave a message then get that message emailed to me" I ONLY use this feature for logging my work tasks and client visits throughout the day. Basically I always forget to record my time spent at various locations or when I do extra work outside of scheduled hours. I have ifttt as a contact in my phone named Bender. When I'm in my car going…

Maybe you could try Moves ( https://www.moves-app.com ) to help with that? I use it to log when I arrive and leave my office and it could easily handle multiple clients/locations.

That looks good, thanks for the info. I remember trying a bunch of geofences with ifttt to try and do something similar. It was a little hit and miss. Recently I switched to windows phone and that limits my app selection in a major way for stuff like this running in the background. Part of why I was OK with the switch was that my main use of ifttt doesn't need an app. I think I'll be back to an iPhone next year and moves might be the way to go.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by gdilla »

kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

Pretty useful to us: Google Calendar reminder to Slack for group hangouts (15min reminder). Then people can just click the link right in their slack client.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by nacs »

flashman wrote: post #49
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

I use IFTTT to email me every time a file is deleted from my Dropbox, after a nasty incident where several gigabytes of baby photos were silently deleted. Luckily I noticed soon enough to restore them. I'm not sure why it happened or whether it could happen again, and Dropbox doesn't have a "this folder is write only" option, and I rarely delete things from Dropbox, so it's nice to have.

If you have something that valuable, consider making regular backups of the things (stored on Dropbox) to another location (Zip and send to Amazon S3 monthly for example).

I wouldn't rely on just Dropbox even with the IFTTT check.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by crymer11 »

escapologybb wrote: post #59
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

Absolutely, I have medication that I have to take the 72 hours so I have a recipe that the checks Google calendar for the event that says "medication", and when the recipe finds it at 7:15 AM every 3rd day it makes all of the LIFX bulbs in the house flash green. This is my only reminder as relying upon these recipes for life-saving medication is not a good idea, but it has been an excellent aid d'memoir which hasn't…

> ...turning the lights on and off, controlling the fan in my bedroom, turning the lights off in the house when I go out and turning them back on again when I come home amongst loads of other things.

Do you have some sort of smart-home controller that controls these devices (e.g. a Wink or SmartThings hub) and IFTTT integrates with said controller? If so, what about the hub is insufficient and requires you to use IFTTT?

I ask because as someone who thinks IFTTT is neat, every time I look at any recipes especially regarding home automation, I don't see anything that I couldn't do with home-assistant or even with my Wink hub or Veralite controller when I used those. Instead, it looks like I'd just be offloading functionality onto a remote service that adds yet another failure point to the system.

Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT

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Post by andruby »

gdilla wrote: post #67
kmf wrote: post #29

Is there anyone relying on IFTTT (or Huginn, or this) for non-trivial things? There was never any vital day-to-day things I could build with IFTTT: I could email myself the daily forecast or things like that, but it was never a killer app for me. Most of the popular recipes[1] I see on IFTTT seem like fun little annoyances that would ultimately get distracting. If it's really crucial to how you work day-to-day, what…

Pretty useful to us: Google Calendar reminder to Slack for group hangouts (15min reminder). Then people can just click the link right in their slack client.

We do this with a simple "/remind #channel to get on the hangout http://url-to-hangout every Friday at 3pm". If group hangouts aren't as regularly timed, I can see the appeal in the Google Calendar IFTTT recipe.
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