IFTTT? A simple way to make your life more interactive
But how and when use it ?
The IFTTT service "If This Then That" is a kind of assistant to automate various daily tasks between different web services, mobile applications, and connected objects: Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote, Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, etc. Whether it's to save time, optimize web visibility, facilitate digital archiving, go watch, or just for fun, IFTTT allows anyone to create the most practical scenarios at their fingertips. more improbable. Here's how to enjoy this funny digital servant.
Do you want a concrete example ? Let's do this together !
Who never think about a perfect house where everything is connected? Where the only things you have to do is to snap your finger and just lay on the sofa? Because now this dream become reality! All of this thanks to IFTTT! With this website, I will teach you and show you the main steps in order to create the house of your dream, a fully connected house.
With my website, every morning when you will wake up everything will wakes up.
When you wake up in the morning, you always need few moments to get yourself situated. Wouldn't it be nice if everything just took care of itself ? Well, that's what we are gonna do together.
So in order to be sure that you will understand all steps of the process, you just need to follow all the instructions of the next exemple and you will not have the same life after!
TO DO:
1) Create your applet and begin by select Flic button for "if this".
2) And for the "then", you have to connect your account with Philips Hue (for the lights), Coffeemaker (for your coffee), Nest (for the heat), Google calendar (for your due date), etc.
RESULTS:
You will get up and by the simple press of a Flic button: your lights will come on, your coffee will get ready, your house will heat up, your calendar will show you the spots of the day. You will have nothing to do, just to let you guide.
In other words your life will be as easy as in this video bellow. Here the man is talking about voice control but it is the same thing: a way to simplify yout life!
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