We will need to copy the key at the end of the address, not the whole URL but just the random characters after the forward slash. Under account info you will see your Webhooks URL. Select Webhooks from the list of services and then click on the cog icon to bring up the settings. Click on your profile picture and choose my services from the drop down menu. In this modern age of social media and the internet, everyone wants to know when I make a cup of coffee or open the bathroom door, right?! Configure Home Assistantįirst we need to fetch the Webhooks key from IFTTT. Sets our thermostat to the Home temperature profile. Disables motion sensing for cameras that are in the house. Begins playing OPB on our Sonos speakers. In this example we will create a somewhat pointless, but nevertheless very cool TwitterBot, which can report the status of things in the home to a Twitter account. Long pressing the On button triggers the good morning automation which: Turns on lights in the appropriate rooms for getting ready in the morning. It is also possible to send webhooks from Home Assistant to a service of our choice. Now everything is ready for testing! If you enabled notifications then you will see confirmation that the applet was created and run successfully in the activity menu.
Choose whether or not you want to receive notifications in IFTTT and click finish. You will be then be presented with the review screen. Once you have entered all of the information, click create action. automation: trigger: - platform: numericstate. In one automation: Trigger on either (A OR B), then use an and condition that asserts both (A AND B) before moving on to the action. after sunset) Action: turn on the lights. It is very easy to setup different triggers and actions within the IFTTT online interface or mobile app. Trigger: change of state from nothome to home. To date there are many different companies included in the list of available services.įor example you could use IFTTT to connect Instagram and Pinterest so that when you post an image to Instagram, it is automatically shared to Pinterest.Īll that is required is to allow IFTTT access to the services that you wish to include. IFTTT is a cloud based service that acts a ‘middleman’ between different services.
In order to do this you will need to use the DuckDNS add-on and setup port forwarding on your router. You will also need your Home Assistant to be accessible over the web. You will of course need an account on IFTTT, so head on over to the website and sign up for an account, it’s totally free. If you are not yet familiar with automation or YAML then I would recommend reading the tutorials about automation and scripts first.
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You should have Home Assistant installed and running and a basic understanding of YAML including how to edit configuration.yaml. You should also understand how to use a service and entity within Home Assistant. This will allow us to link a whole world of internet services to our Home Assistant setup.
In this tutorial we will go through the process of setting up a link between IFTTT and Home Assistant. It allows the use of applets, which are a basic IF THEN conditional statement. If This Then That is a powerful cloud-based service that allows you to connect many different services.