I want to automate if I launch a specific app it turns on WiFi, please help

Hey Team,

I'm trying to set up an automation for my kids when they are home alone to alert me and their mother if there is an emergency, by all accounts i can use IFTTT to set up an alert by saying "Hey Google, Activate Emergency Alert" and it will send a text to myself and my ex. i have connected IFTTT to my google and i have signed up to the suggested sms account they asked me to, created an applet that is supposed to run when i say the line and then send the messages to the numbers. but when i say the activation to my smart speakers, "Hmm, Something went wrong" or "I don't know what you want me to do, please try again"... please help?!? otherwise ill end up just deleting and cancelling my IFTTT account.

EDIT. I'm in Australia.

I'm trying to send myself an email everyday with info and in the subject and body I want to have the system date variable in format MM/DD. anyone know where to find this info?

Hi, I was looking into IFTTT to play around with automations. I don't really have a serious use case so I can definitely live without it but I knew about this service for many years and never tried it, so i figured it would be fun.

But when I looked here, the top posts suggest there's enshittification and corporate greed surrounding the service. I'm wary of digging myself a hole by investing into and possibly coming to depend on a decaying platform and the best moment to avoid that would be now. What do you think?

I understand the "do whatever the hell you want, we're not your mother" and "businesses change so you take a gamble with every subscription model you get into" angles, and i know it's not "dying"-dying, an automation service as old as IFTTT is hard to fully depopulate but that's not the point. If you're just going to scoff and grumble please don't bother, I just want some opinions from users if you want to share.

Brand new user as of last night - I love what I see so far but correct me if I'm wrong that the service connected is what limits the functionality -- example

I have cheap heat melt mats installed at my Airbnb , so this is the flow im struggling with :

If - weather underground detects conditions change to snow

Then - run HBN Smart ( the smart plug) scene to turn on the heated mats

My current problem is the mats don't turn off they just keep triggering "run" as long as there's snow , HBN has a timer function that once running it will run until the timer stops however IFTT simply keeps triggering "run" and the timer is moot

Help ? :)

Is there such a thing as IFTT - BUT ? lol

When I'm home and able to get some screenshots of the setup I will do so

I've moved from Twitter to Bluesky for a lot of things and people I follow, but one thing I wish it had is the ability to get notified when people you follow post. I figured I could maybe do this with IFTTT using an applet, but I'm not quite sure how I'd do it.

Would love to be able to filter out programs I’m not using so I only find what I’m looking for.

Hello, I would like the ability to forward my Twitter posts to Bluesky. Do you think this would be possible without upsetting the lord and savior Elon Musk? I'd appreciate Bluesky integration.

I have Alexa and Google enabled and connected to several things around the house; like

my fire stick responds to "Alexa, show backyard camera" and

my Eufy Smart lock responds to "Google unlock front door"

Is there any way in an IFTTT App to cause these actions to happen without using the Alexa or Google phrases? For example, I'd like to somehow remotely trigger the unlock or lock action and am thinking IFTTT might be able to emulate "saying": 'Hey Google...' to my smart lock.

BTW, I'm aware that the smart lock is controllable via its own phone app, but I don't always have access to that.

Ideas appreciated.

Thanks

I am a new user of iffit and just made an applet to charge my Razr 50 Ultra. The idea was to use AccuBattery to send a notification once my phone reaches 80% charge, and then turn off my TP-link Tapo Smart Plug using iffit.

I have iffit all the permissions it required, including the special app permission to read notifications. When testing, iffit never use identified any notification that came through from AccuBattery. I tried this using the specific app toggle, with multiple different apps and it never recognised it.

I also tried the general notification toggle which only seemed to work immediately after restarting my phone. This tells me it has access to my notifications, it just isn't accurately scanning for them.

Any help is appreciated.

Is there a way to use multiple triggers - camera movement and time of day etc. I can only see a way to use one trigger

I have used the twitter-to-spreadsheet applet by years. Some months ago it was announced that the service will need to be payed due to changes on twitter API. I didn't have a Pro account on that time then the service stopped. Now I found that the spreadsheet was deleted from my google drive, is there any option to recover that file?

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to buy a Govee Wi-Fi Thermometer (model H5179) and a WeMo Wi-Fi Smart Plug Outlet to automate my heating system using IFTTT. My goal is to have the smart plug turn ON or OFF based on the room temperature detected by the thermometer.

From my research, it seems both devices are compatible with IFTTT and don’t require a hub, but I’m new to this and would love some guidance:

1. Are these devices fully compatible with IFTTT for the automation I want?
2. Are there other devices (thermometers or smart plugs) you would recommend instead?
3. Any tips on setting up the applet in IFTTT for temperature-based control?

I’d really appreciate your advice and suggestions to make sure everything works smoothly before I make the purchase.

Thanks in advance!

None of the applets I create work when pressed?

Hi all, I'm a small business owner looking for help automating my record keeping using google sheets. I have to keep track of the number of appointments each of my clients has and on really busy days I'm finding myself struggling to remember to tally up appointments for people to keep track of how many they've paid for vs how many they've completed. I use square appointments but it becomes quite laborious to try to go through it and make sure everything adds up properly based on how many sessions people pay for, and how many they have completed. I'm a one man operation and also run another business by myself as well so I'm just trying to simplify day-to-day operations as much as possible.

All of my appointments are scheduled in my google calendar, which is linked to square appointments, so I'm wondering if there is any way to create a spreadsheet that would be linked to my calendar so that every time an event/appointment is completed in my calendar it adds to the running tally of the number of appointments in the spreadsheet. The catch is that I would need to have a specific tally for each event that goes by the same name, so that I can keep my appointment tally's specific to each customer.

To provide an example of what I'm talking about I created a spreadsheet to give you an idea of the concept I have in my head, here's a screenshot of it: https://imgur.com/a/tX7wH5a

I'm not sure if this is possible but if anyone could help me out I'd be very grateful! I have no knowledge of coding or computer software/programming stuff so I'm really at a loss here.

Thanks

I'm trying to forward tweets to reddit. The search query is broken for a couple days now.

I’m looking to post once and replicate to both/or Flickr and Bluesky

I’ve been running a recipe for Instagram-> Flickr for years.

Anyone have Bluesky in their mixes?

I don’t get it. I found that you can not have a Google sheet in Google Drive root folder. So I created the folder Home. And created a sheet in there called Home. Then I refer to cell B2, to set the value to On. I created a Siri shortcut to run the script. No errors But it just DOES NOT work. I would expect it to create an IFTTT folder on my drive if the path is left empty. Also doesn’t work. Can someone please help me out?

I've got several applets that insert tweets into EVernote notes. The new tweets always appear at the bottom, but when I see the updated notes in the list of notes, I only see the oldest note at the top, and I'd like to see the newest instead. Is there a way to do that?

I'm open to workarounds. Maybe I'll have the same tweets appear as Notifications at the same time, but they'd be fleeting.

Is there anyway that I can make my alarm system actually use my Google home to play the alarm on the speakers or something? The homebase is very quiet

I’m looking for a physical button I could press that will trugger a rule in IFTTT.

any ideas?

Just checking...

Is it common for IFTTT to not have any options for automations I'm needing? They're pretty basic: New task in ClickUp created a new transaction in Wave; New gmail labeled Important" triggers an SMS; Google form completed triggers an email response. I submitted suggestions for each but wondering...

Is this a common experience for others??