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Does anyone have experience using IFTTT?

YmpkerYmpker Member
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So did anyone use IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/) yet? Is it actually convenient if used correctly?
What have you specifically done with it?

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  • seanhoseanho Member
    edited March 2018

    I played around with IFFFT for a bit to send notifications from my home automation software (Domoticz) to my phone. I remember feeling like there were not many integrations that were useful to me. Then the Domoticz android app got notifications via GCM and I didn't need IFFFT any more.

    This was a few years ago, maybe they've gotten better since then.

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  • WSSWSS Member

    Yeh, IFTTT is pretty much an awk pipe between processes that aren't guaranteed to be very usable, or reliable.

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  • TomTom Member

    Ifttt is okay, does what it says on the tin but a bit slow. I much prefer home-assistant for home assistant based things.

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  • seikanseikan Member

    I mainly using IFFFT notification webhook.

    1. SSH login notification.
    2. UptimeRobot notification.
    3. Cronjobs status notification.
    4. Munin alert notification.
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  • jetchiragjetchirag Member

    It's good, I used to play around things with it like slack, emails, alexa etc.

    IIRC it also provides webhook which can be very useful. Although, for serious purposes, zapier is much better.

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  • mikhomikho Member, Host Rep

    I use it to track things like when I get to/leave the office.

    Notifications on weather reports, not very accurate though.

    Stuff like that

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  • YmpkerYmpker Member

    Interesting to hear about all this :) Keep them coming^^

  • noamannoaman Member

    @seikan said:
    I mainly using IFFFT notification webhook.

    1. SSH login notification.
    2. UptimeRobot notification.
    3. Cronjobs status notification.
    4. Munin alert notification.

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    1 and 3 how are you doing that ?

    API?

  • mrjoelmrjoel Member

    email notification

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    noaman said: 1 and 3 how are you doing that ?

    I realize your question is about IFTTT, but it's easy to set this up on your own without IFTTT if you want. Here is an example for Linux:

    http://blog.th-neumeier.de/2011/02/send-email-on-ssh-login-using-pam/

  • jetchiragjetchirag Member

    noaman said: 1 and 3 how are you doing that ?

    You can get it working with little modification:

    http://sandrinodimattia.net/posting-successful-ssh-logins-to-slack/

    For cron as well, you can create a script to simply ping or send output to webhook

  • JackieSungJackieSung Member

    @WSS said:
    Yeh, IFTTT is pretty much an awk pipe between processes that aren't guaranteed to be very usable, or reliable.

    May I ask why do you have that signature says FYM in Chinese?

  • WSSWSS Member

    @JackieSung said:
    May I ask why do you have that signature says FYM in Chinese?

    Class.

  • seikanseikan Member

    noaman said: 1 and 3 how are you doing that ?

    I guess others already answered that for me.

    The notification part is even easier:

    wget -q -O /dev/null --no-check-certificate --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --post-data '{"value1":"MY MESSAGE HERE"}' https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/notify/with/key/IFFFT_KEY
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