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    Stringify?

    Any chance that homeseer will support this? Seems like a much more powerful IFTTT.

    #2
    Good question. . .challenge is that you would then be building events in the cloud, instead of locally in Homeseer.

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      #3
      That is true. But that is how IFTTT works now and it is limited and slow. The real value of these platforms is that they open up a host of new devices that aren't supported natively in homeseer. I was thrilled that IFTTT supported wink until response times went from seconds to minutes to hours.

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        #4
        I agree that it is nice to open up more devices without another specific plugin needed. . .I try to avoid the cloud control options most of the time though. . .unfortunately, as you have seen, delays are then out of your control. . .

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          #5
          I use the Homeseer IFTTT integration extensively to trigger Homeseer events from my Google Home (via Google Assistant IFTTT -> Homeseer IFTTT).

          I don't think I've EVER seen it take more than 5 seconds to trigger an event. Maybe I've just been lucky.

          Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk

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            #6
            Stringify is faster, currently.

            I've found Maker events on IFTTT to be nearly instantaneous. However, during the Super Bowl I had some lights flash for touchdowns (using ESPN => LIFX). On one set of lights I used IFTTT. On another I used Stringify. The Stringify lights flashed within one second of a touchdown. Blazingly fast. IFTTT flashed an hour after the game ended - utterly useless. At one time I had also used IFTTT to flash a message on my TV whenever the international space station was overhead (NASA => Comcast). The message would appear and I would check. Nearly every time the space station was already over Fiji by the time the message appeared. It's the triggers on IFTTT that are slow, not the actions.

            Understanding that these services are free, really not much to complain about, but so far Stringify is way faster on most events, but if it becomes more popular, it might also slow down.

            So, back to the original question, any chance of Homeseer having a Stringify channel?

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              #7
              Hello FreezePlanet or anyone in general,
              Curious how you integrated Stringify with HomeSeer? I am trying to use a stringify connect maker to send a post request to myhs and set a value on a device. Are you connecting Stringify directy to your homeseer (not using myhs)?

              I have a working curl request but for some reason I can't get it to work using a connect maker.

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                #8
                Always happens, haha. Figured it out right after posting the question.

                Be sure to select "send an http get" and not a post when configuring the connect maker.

                For anyone seeing this and wanting to integrate Stringify with HomeSeer use this as the URL

                https://connected2.homeseer.com/JSON...384&value=1000

                be sure to change the username@myhs and password to your myhs username and password.

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                  #9
                  You can use the IFTTT plug-in to integrate stringify with HomeSeer, see this thread: https://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=188537

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                    #10
                    I am trying to send a command to HS from stringify. However, I am stuck in what "Thing" to use in stringify to send an http command. I am in the "Things" section, click on the plus sign and select "Add a new thing". However, nothing in that list seems to allow me send an http command. So how do I add this?

                    Also mwolter posted the link https://connected2.homeseer.com/JSON...384&value=1000

                    What's that 'connected2.homeseer.com' URL? Is that still valid? Or is that now they myhs.homeseer.com URL?

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                      #11
                      Well, I figured out the link. If you have myHS then it is https://myhs.homeseer.com/JSON?user=[LoginNameToMyHS]&pass=[Password]&request=controldevicebyvalue&ref=[ReferenceID/DeviceID]&value=[ValueToBeSet]


                      The link wasn't too hard to figure out due to mwolter's post but I have spent some 2+ hours trying to find where to post this command in stringify. Stringify is quite confusing but IFTTT's response time is just terrible.

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                        #12
                        Ok, so I got this working. What you need is one of their webhooks called "connect: Maker". So on your mobile device go to the stringify app. Click on "Things" at the bottom. Click on the plus sign to add a new "Thing". From the pop up menu select "Add a new Thing". Scroll down to "Connect: Maker" and enable that "Thing". Now when you go to "Flow" from the menu at the bottom (same level where you selected "Things"). you can create a flow and add (by clicking on the + sign) the "Connect: Maker Thing". Once added and placed, click on it and a window will pop up. The main issue I had was that I selected "Send an HTTP POST". Instead, I had to select "Send an HTTP GET". Then use the URL I posted before. You don't need to configure anything else like Parameters, Authentication type, etc.

                        The only concern I have is providing the username and password in the URL. Somewhere I read that when you use https then the parameters in the URL are encoded as well, i.e. it should be save to put your username and password as a parameter in the URL. Is this really true?

                        EDIT: Btw, Strigify is so much faster than IFTTT. With my SkyBell doorbell it would take somewhere from 2-30 minutes to get notifications about movement. Button presses didn't come through at all. I contacted IFTTT and they confirmed that they can see the button presses but that they don't go through. They blamed it on SkyBell and SkyBell blamed it on IFTTT. In any case, with Stringify the delay for button presses is like 2-3 seconds (very limited testing). It's still strange hearing the doorbell some 2-3 seconds after you click the button but at least it rings. On the downside, Stringify is MUCH harder to get started with. I don't even think it's because it's more powerful but the interface is just not intuitive.

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