Options Unavailable in IFTTT

[markymark (Mark Baumann)]

Or the new Microsoft Flow which maybe can bring this topic to a other level

[hmerk (Hans-Jörg Merk)]

openHAB cloud connector is opensource, so feel free to implemment the needed changes for automate.io or Microsoft Flow. Would be great if you contribute it as a PR.

[fuslwusl]

@hmerk

If you really need IFFFT, why don‘t you setup your own myopenHAB instance and connect it to the service. Searching this community will give you many advices how to achieve this

Because a lot of work and testing is required to get this work. This is not something you get up and running without deep knowledge of cloud stuff and servers and linux. IFTTT is a service that is easy to use and many smart home users like it - so a connection to openhab should work for a few items to make life easy for users. As a developer you are interested in all this work in configuring and running his own cloud infrastructure but a normal user wants to automate his stuff and not be a sysadmin and developer.

[hmerk (Hans-Jörg Merk)]

@fuslwusl

so a connection to openhab should work for a few items to make life easy for users.

And who should decide how much a few is? AFAIK we don‘t really know at what number of exposed items the issues start, so it was necessary to disable this feature completely.

[rpwong (Russ)]

@fuslwusl

My mediaplayer don’t stop playback anymore because there is no way to get the ring doorbell notification to openhab anymore. it is only possible and very reliably with IFTTT.

There’s a Ring binding that many users have been testing for over a year. You might want to check it out if you haven’t already tried it.

Ring doorbell

I think I worked out 2-factor and also got it working with the new 2.5.1 addons repo, if you want to test here’s the links - use whichever one that your version supports. org.openhab.binding.ring-2.4.0.jar org.openhab.binding.ring-2.5.1-SNAPSHOT.jar You’re going to want to delete and recreate your account thing at the very least, if you use two factor put in your username and password and save. When you get the SMS from ring.com, go back into the account thing configuration and enter the 2 fa…

I understand your frustration over IFTTT, but I also think that you’re making a strong assumption about how the connector works without fully understanding the issue (I don’t claim to grasp it, either). we would all prefer for IFTTT to work, but the vast majority of OH users are happier that myopenhab.org has been far more reliable since the change was made.

Personally, I just found ways to rework my system so that I don’t need IFTTT, but that’s not going to be possible for everyone. Hopefully the Ring binding gets you a little closer to that.

[fuslwusl]

@rpwong

There’s a Ring binding that many users have been testing for over a year. You might want to check it out if you haven’t already tried it.

Thanx for the Ring binding info - but i already tried it. The problem with the ring binding is that it is not supported by Ring and has to do polling. I had very long delays to get the notification after someone rang. The IFTTT way worked nearly immediately because Ring supports IFTTT. Its a shame that Amazon doesn’t care about integration - they just want to sell their paid ring video plan and nothing else. So its not a problem of openhab and i am really a fan of the openhab community and this great peace of software. I had the problem with unreliable openhab cloud notifications before IFTTT was removed - so i can understand this limitation. And i don’t know the technical stuff but it would be great to have some items usable for IFTTT in the near future if this is possible. Perhaps the ring binding or openhab cloud can get support from the ring team. I have a call today with the ring support but i am not very optimistic that this is an option for them. A workaround could be possible with the samsung smarthings stuff that has support for ring. I will try soon.