i saw ifttt advertising an overhaul lately only to find you STILL can't join two conditions (eg. if I leave work AND its past 5pm, send a text)
Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
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Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#42Why the heck haven't Google bought this, or at least made their own clone? It's a superb service.
I think there's an overlap with Google's services.
With Google, I:
1. get a notification if the roads are busy on the way to work.
2. notified when bills (that I received via email) are due.
3. and more that I can think of right now.
That's just with the Google (formerly Now?) app. With Allo and other apps Google's services are going to improve without you doing ANY ifttt-like rules.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#43Is 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…
The Maker channel allows you to receive POST requests, and if you combine that with Dropbox you can use it to log things to a file on your Dropbox account.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#44Is 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…
A while back I had a long design discussion about using IFTTT to do essentially what pagerduty is doing. Notification relays and routing: Feed an event into it, and based on urgency and tags broadcast it to the correct feeds (irc channels, slack, email sysadmins, etc). You could theoretically create groups of people you want to contact this way. No more screwing around with bridging protocols and every single bot imp…
Try Zapier for that.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#45I 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 recipes out there.
There's a company out there called Yonami (www.yonami.com) that has an app for mobile that sort of does this - but unfortunately it is a bit buggy and doesn't integrate with as many apps.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#46Why the heck haven't Google bought this, or at least made their own clone? It's a superb service.
The whole point of the service is to automate stuff so you don't have to open their webpage ever again if done properly. This doesn't bring advertising revenue in.
Indeed, that's the goal: reliable! :)
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#47A little nitpick, the slider is hugely unnecessary.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I rely on it for something that is pretty simple: notification if it's going to rain tomorrow. It doesn't rain enough where I live for me to be in the habit of checking, so having something sitting in the background that will remind me the ~5 times a year I care is really really helpful. I ride a bike to work so it helps me prep my rain gear. My morning commute time doesn't take into account finding gear and getting…
I use it for the exact same thing: I motorcycle in to work and need to make sure my rain gear is ready. But it only actually works about 25% of the time. It works so rarely that I haven't even remembered to turn it off.
Bummer. It works 99% for me but some ability to choose the percent chance threshold would help.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#49Is 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.
Re: Trigger Happy: An opensource clone of IFTTT
#50Is 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 find it best for set-and-forget integrations. Eg. back up all my instagram photos to google drive