IFTTT Free Plan Will Only Allows 3 Applets Starting 10/7 - Who Is Going To Subscribe?

[Wade]

I am curious what they will do for those of us that have more than 3 custom routines?

Was wondering the same. I actually have 7, five of which are disconnected. Had thought to maybe delete the 5 I'm not using, lest they try to decide for me which ones I don't want.

[Guest]

I have over 20 applets (or recipies, or whatever they are calling them today), but I have them as a convenience, not as a necessity. I always created a second methodology, as I never have trusted a free cloud based service not to do something like this (and they did).

I am not going to change anything until they actually stop working. There is a lot of screaming and yelling going on about this in the industry, so it is possible they may "modify" their stance before October 7 (and claim its because they are "listening" to their customers).

I suspect the vendors (who have been solely paying for IFTTT up to now), are making their input known. It has been a selling point for many products, which has now gone away.

[simonmason]

At least they are not going away completely as stringify did.

[ksum]

I do not use IFTTT as I found it too slow when I tried it years ago. If I did use it I would be doing a web search for node red contribs for anything I might be using. And frankly probably would have started such before the IFTT announcement. I saw there is a contrib for a Trane thermostat and blink cameras, which have been mentioned here as reasons to use IFTTT. With node red you can be a little more localized. This coming from someone who is only playing with node red, so not trying to advocate it here, but suggest you may find an alternative.

[macromark]

I used this for a couple of things - like Blink cameras - as they provided no other hope of integration.

maybe Node Red will work for you? https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-...ib-viseo-blink

[w.vuyk]

Tried to use it long ago. After waiting minutes for a trigger to arrive, let it go. Not worth any money at all. Not even for free.

[Bill Brower]

This service is so slow and unusable I'm amazed it's lasted as long as it has.

Agreed. I use Jon00 RSS plugin to parse feeds.
I tried IFTTT to have the RSS feeds sent to me via Gmail.
The events never fired.

[Roobrother]

I'm thinking of use IFTTT as I have a sat nav with it installed. Trying to set up geofencing

[Guest]

Tried to use it long ago. After waiting minutes for a trigger to arrive, let it go. Not worth any money at all. Not even for free.

Still hope and waiting ? Haha

[w.vuyk]

Haha, No, the trigger arrived at some point, but way to late to be effective. I believe it came in 5 minutes after the real event. Not fit for anything critical.

[ewkearns]

Absolutely no interest, here. Too slow and buggy.

[prsmith777]

Agree with many others here. Tried it once and the delays were intolerable. Moved along quickly. Looks like this is a desperate last chance to keep the company alive.

[backkri]

It is 1.99 minimum per month. Only the first year

They are already changing their mind. Got a mail that the 'only the first year' is no longer valid, what you choose now will also stay valid after a year. They say.

[Fellhahn]

My patience for their service/product lasted all of about a day. Set up some routines, appallingly bad response times on triggers.

In response to their attempt at monetising, years after the HA gold rush has peaked and dropped back:

[mulu]

This service is so slow and unusable I'm amazed it's lasted as long as it has.

Exactly my experience. I wanted some events triggered when my Skybell doorbell was pressed. It took anywhere from 1 minute to more than an hour. Totally useless...