IFTTT and the IoT - 2

IFTTT and the IoT - 2

In my previous post I wrote about IFTTT as it is a cool interface whiich you can use without too much of a sweat or equivalently without any coding.

IFTTT stands for the conditional statement "If this then that'. It is a web based service with a simple workflow. Flow of work (action, that) is created by a trigger based on a condition(this), like say,'If it rains take the umbrella'. This service was provided in some cases, such as the various financial services that you could get an email if your chosen stock price reached a new high, etc. They were called alerts and they are also used by banks and credit card companies.


As most of our actions and those of the 'Internet of Things' are condition-based, IFTTT is expected to grow and expand deep into IOT.


What IFTTT has done to simplify this process is by offering a web interface to set up triggers and take appropriate actions. Both the trigger and the actions that follow the trigger have their own channel and every IFTTT recipe is tied into these channels.

Since my first post on this (http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/06/ifttt-and-iot.html), I wrote a few more posts to elaborate and since it is already a year or more ago after my first post, I revisited and was quite thrilled that lot more has been added to the list of things you can do.

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/07/hey-ifttt-now-has-office-365-channels.html

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/06/azure-logic-apps-and-ifttt-azure-app.html

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2015/10/one-easy-way-to-get-started-with.html

In my recent visit to IFTTT site, I see a lot more IoT and Skype related recipes.

Here is a piece from Connected Homes

IoT/IFTTT_2016_00

Amazon's Alexa is Number 1 TopChef when it comes to creating IFTTT recipes and here are few from Amazon.

IoT/IFTTT_2016_01

Microsoft's Office Integration with IFTTT was described in an earlier post. Here are few of the many recipes using Skype.

IoT/IFTTT_2016_02

You are motivated as to its utility, go visit the page. http://ifttt.com

IFTTT or (Microsoft) took notice of my rant in my previous post and added a bunch of OneDrive related recipes.

Hey! IFTTT now has Office 365 Channels

I posted recently regarding IFTTT. I did consider looking at Azure APP and IFTTT as a pair.  I created a few IFTTT items that worked well;  like as soon as I post to the blogger, a tweet is generated. That's good service, don't you think?

Did you see the big list of channels I posted?

You might have noticed the absence of Office 365 or Azure or anything of Microsoft. Now Microsoft's Office 365 has joined the IFTTT channels. Review this link here: It has a number of recipes and you can find anbout all of them here:
https://ifttt.com/p/microsoft/shared



Here are the Microsoft related channels on IFTTT.

 

 

I would like to see MSFT's Health and Fitness app in the Fitness and Wearables category of channels.

A few more hookups to Mass Commerce sites

Microsoft should go all the way and link up with IFTTT in more ways like offering the DO buttons from the Microsoft Store. I have schematically shown what I have in my mind:

 

I insist, I don't work for MSFT.

 

I think if they change their slogan from "Mobile First, Cloud First" to "Investor First, Cloud First and Mobile First", then only you will see Apple and Google will take notice.

 

Summing up: This is a good thing. I tried to include OneDrive channel in my recipe to day and it could not find OneDrive. Perhaps they are still working on it.

 

 

 

 

 



 

IFTTT and IOT

IFTTT stands for the conditional statement "If this then that'. It is a web based service with a simple workflow. Flow of work (action, that) is created by a trigger based on a condition(this), like say,'If it rains take the umbrella'. This service was provided in some cases, such as the various financial services that you could get an email if your chosen stock price reached a new high, etc. They were called alerts and they are also used by banks and credit card companies.

As most of our actions and those of the 'Internet of Things' are condition-based, IFTTT is expected to grow and expand deep into IOT.

What IFTTT has done to simplify this process is by offering a web interface to set up triggers and take appropriate actions. Both the trigger and the actions that follow the trigger have their own channel and every IFTTT recipe is tied into these channels.

Let us say, I choose to get an email into my Gmail account when the Microsoft stock price exceeds a certain value. Then there are two channels lined up, the Gmail with its account and the financial site providing the financial information (IFTTT uses Yahoo Finance). If you set up the recipe (a 7 step process) right then when the Microsoft stock rises above 50 (assumed value) then an email is triggered to send it to your recipients.


I suppose the site is swamped as my attempts set up recipe was not successful.

More details here:
https://ifttt.com/start

[Update:
The complete steps to create a IFTTT recipe is detailed here:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-easy-is-it-to-create-ifttt-recipe.html]

IFTTT has both recipes and the more recent addition, the Do buttons.

A simple work flow tied with a condition tying a trigger channel with an action channel


IFTTT_WF.png

There are lots of trigger channels and you can choose, weather is just one of them

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As I mentioned the service is under going maintenance.


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I will follow this up when the service returns to normal. Check status here: http://status.ifttt.com/

Here are some stock recipes.

IFTTT_StockRecipes

There are recipes that you could use with your Android or iPhone. 

For example some of the the conditional actions that you can perform with IF for Android are:

If your battery power is low turn off Bluetooth
When you plug-in your phone, mute it
When you unplug, unmute your phone
When at home turn-on WiFi for data

There are recipes for IOT based bulbs, air-conditioners and many others.