Oct. 7th is when they will limit your applets to a max of 3 unless you name a price to continue with the pro plan. Of course, name your price is valid for the 1st year.
Luckily I only have 2 customs actions in IFTTT. It sucks ■■■, and wouldn't consider the paid option. I have it to link ring to hubitat and as a backup notifier of my house alarm, just because you cant have too few different apps notifying you if the alarm goes off. Hubitat, smartthings, ifttt, email, all start buzzing away!
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I found alexa somewhat less reliable, but yes, that is also possible in much the same way using a virtual device
Did you ask them what their preferred pronoun is?
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Please stop before this turns into Facebook. 
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I started using alexa.. but it won't trigger when a switch is turned on or off. But I did find making a small rule that made a virtual contact sensor mm just a dumb way of doing it. But I got it to fix some ifttt things..so I'm down to only one right now
I'd consider writing a driver for Kumo Cloud. I'm trying to finish writing one for the European MELCloud and want to then inctegrate it with the code I wrote for the Aus/NZ MELView, but once they are complete and released I'd be happy to look at Kumo.
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That would be amazing!!!
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I tried a few phrases, and all I can get it to say is "I'm an AI, I don't have a gender " or "I'm an AI, I don't have a sex", without any mention of how it would identify. Remember, you can change the voice, and that Alexa is merely a wake word. I'm not here to fight though. I just fully beleive in using them correctly, including for non binary and trans folk.
But I can certainly see a lot of people moving towards the Alexa integration for rules, although it needs a lot of work in terms of capability, but it has added some pretty good feature set recently, and I use the system with hubitat, and also do have it linked to ring.
It is a joke xD
It is a routine.
I just wanted to make a point that she can be whatever you want it to be. You can make her male or female. In my case her name is Alexa, she sounds like a female, so I made her be a female when somebody asks her what her gender is. That is what she will answer.
Omg!! Let's get back in topic please!!!
On a note of topic. I noticed that IFTTT sub fee is even more then the Wink fee of $5.. so they are really reaching tooooooo high.
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I asked Google assistant what was its preferred pronoun and it replied "Thank you for asking. I like to be referred to as 'it'"
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So I posted a comment on the YouTube video, and I will admit that there is someone looking at all the comments like a HAWK, cause I saw many replies made from them within minutes of someone posting. So I will admit I can see they are taking a look at their customers for feedback.
ps. I don't even know why I care all that much, I have 2 things that I use, and I just got it down to 1 now.
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Looks like he went off the handle. LOL
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Of course he did, his flawed premise of what "good" looks like in home automation just collapsed.
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He does have one good point here. I was going to post the same thing the other day, but thought I must be missing something.
- Isn't this new fee just asking for people to start multiple accounts?
- What stops someone from having dozens of free IFTTT accounts?
I agree, his concept of home automation seems to A. be on the cheep (WAY TOO CHEEP) and B. Whatever works kinda.
being super cheep is nice but that does forgo reliability. and the whatever works, well, come on, you don't buy an Xbox to play PS4 games. it seems as requiring IFTTT to run the majority of his devices because they seem to work is well, destined to get him into this kind of trouble.
I like my HE not because it's cheep, cause I can do almost everything inside of it, it is central control, I used IFTTT for a few things, and let as much go as I could cause I did not like a middle man, who wants a middle man.
he is right about that IFTTT was charging the companies to put their logo on the box, so there is no reason they should charge us at all.
Eh, I can't say that. They are a for profit company so can charge whomever they want, whatever they want. As long as people pay it, then by definition it is OK and the only reason they need.
None of us know their financials - maybe the vendor fees weren't paying their bills/covering costs?
All I'm saying is that his little notion of gluing everything together through a web service is not my idea of good home automation. Ever. Period. Even when IFTTT was free. The fact it isn't free long term doesn't change that.
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i agree with that. don't even like how limited IFTTT really is. something happens and it does that, no conditional stuff. a waste
