Talking Tablet Recipe

Software or Services Used

Tasker, AutoNotification, IFTTT

Hardware

Any > 4.0 Android Device

Possible Uses

  • Welcome home “Hello Rod”
  • Tell you the weather
  • Tell you what’s happening around you
  • Notify you of any earthquakes
  • There is motion in another room

Warning

This can get annoying for the people around you if this feature isn’t used sparingly or used when ONLY you are around.

Method for the earthquake example

1. Setup Tasker

  1. Download AutoNotification
  2. Create a new AutoNotification Plugin State within Tasker
  3. Select your filter command (ie. earthquake)
  4. Enter the task with the ‘Say’ command
  5. Enter a new task (named earthquake)
  6. Enter text New Earthquake %ancomm

2. Setup IFTTT to send an Android Notification

  1. You will need IFTTT installed
  2. Make a new RSS trigger with : http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/significant_day.atom
  3. New android Notification

Conclusion

You can get your tablet to respond to anything you would like. This could also be used as craigslist notifications to your devices.

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IFTTT Home Automation Recipes

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IFTTT is an incredible tool. You can do almost anything from creating fancy lighting recipes that once you email yourself it can turn on your HUE lights. We talk about the most useful recipes that you won’t find on other automation websites.

All of these you can do yourself:

Recipes:

IFTTT Home and Phone Automation Favourite Recipes

IFTTT Recipe: Mute my ringer at bedtime connects date-time to android-device

IFTTT Recipe: Turn volume up by text (when phone lost in cushions) connects android-sms to android-device

IFTTT Recipe: Make a grand entrance with Philips Hue + IFTTT connects ios-location to philips-hue

IFTTT Recipe: If you exit an area. Turn OFF WiFi to save battery power connects ios-location to ios-notifications

IFTTT Recipe: Save my iOS photos to Dropbox connects ios-photos to dropbox

IFTTT Recipe: Save Facebook photos you're tagged in to iOS Photos connects facebook to ios-photos

IFTTT Recipe: If you enter an area, Turn back ON WiFi to save cellular data connects ios-location to ios-notifications

IFTTT Recipe: Turn on a space heater connects android-wear to wemo-switch

IFTTT Recipe: Turn off the lights connects android-wear to philips-hue

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iPhone and Home Automation

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Apple makes amazingly intuitive products.  It also restricts the capability of them to limit the ‘options’ users have to make it easy for just about everyone to pick it up and use it.  When using your iPhone with Home Automation you’re limited in what you can do without opening that up.

Step 1: Jailbreak and then keep reading

Don’t want to?  You’re going to need to link Siri to an Android device.

Home Automation on an iPhone without a jailbreak (learn how) is pretty painful as there is far more interesting things you can do with your device that you need to unleash.

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Activator

The master automator for iOS is discussed with ways to integrate with your automation hub.  You can edit your triggers based on applications that open, schedules, events or settings on your phone.  Read More

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Top 10 Automation Tweaks

Just having activator is a good start but you also need to get some tweaks to make your system more integrated.  There are a few MUST haves and we break them down for you.

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Custom Remote

Having a remote on the wall is very cconvenient  It can allow you to have custom scripts to run all over your house and beyond.

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IFTTT and iOS

IFTTT is great to integrate a lot of functionality of the web into your system without a jailbreak.  It also allows a ‘no coding’ option to do some complicated tasks.  Keep reading to read some interesting recipes.

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Link Android and iOS Together

Since iOS and Android are different ecosystems they don’t work well together.  We show you a way you can still use an iPhone but take advantage of all the open source work done on the other side.

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iOS has a lot of accessories and we breakdown the best accessories for automation that will improve your iPads functionality and make your iPhone double as a wallet/key etc.

Home Automation with the Iphone Basic Checklist

  1. Find out your hubs API for launching GET requests to your devices
  2. Create custom commands to launch them via Launch Center Pro
  3. Jailbreak if possible and create ‘Menus’ in Activator

iPhone Discussion

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