Ifttt questions

#1

I may be making this harder than it really is but I need some assistance if possible.
I have switchbot that runs off ifttt that triggers a light switch to come on when motion is sensed. I am simply wanting to run a piston from webcore to tell the switchbot to turn back off after a certain amount of time and only a certain time of day. Just lost on how to begin. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

#2

it is a shame you can’t connect your Switchbot directly to SmartThings… (I dunno, it may be possible) It would be nice to have all your logic done in webCoRE, and skip IFTTT entirely.

Otherwise, you will have to use webCoRE to send a command to IFTTT for the off command. I am sure someone has a good example of that here on the forums.

#3

So, you are turning on Switchbot via a virtual switch? Why not use turning that virtual switch off be the trigger to turn off switchbot? Then you would just treat the virtual switch like it was the SwitchBot. Is that what your question is? Or are you trying to figure out how to turn a switch off after a period of time?

#4

I’m just simply trying to turn a switch off after x amount of minutes after it is turned on

#5

Thanks. I am going to keep an eye out for something to pop up

#6

I think I may have found a work around using alexa and ifttt. Just silly to have to write so much for a simple command but if it works I think it would be better than nothing. Going to work on it now. Thanks again

#7

Found my solution with a virtual switch. Was way over thinking things