pimatic-ifttt

pimatic-ifttt is a pimatic plugin which allows IFTTT to trigger certain actions in pimatic. Here are a few usecases:

• If you're in the proximity of your home turn on the lights.
• Turn off the lights if you're leaving town.
• Rinkle a bell when a friend posts to Facebook.
• Etc.

With pimatic-ifttt you use IFTTT events to trigger your home automation!

Setup

Step 1: Setting up pimatic

Add the following to the plugins section of config.json:

{
    "plugin": "ifttt"
}

Pimatic will automatically download the plugin.

Now add a device to the devices section :

{
    "id": "ifttt-device",
    "name": "IFTTT device",
    "class": "IFTTTDevice"
}

To test if the API works, add the following rule

{
    "id": "ifttt-test-rule",
    "name": "ifttt-test-rule",
    "rule": "if IFTTT device is triggered then log \"API is triggered\"",
    "active": true,
    "logging": true
}

Now restart the pimatic.js daemon and trigger the api:

http://<pimatic-ip-address>:[portnumber]/api/device/ifttt-device/trigger

In the pimatic message interface you'll see the log message.

Step 2: Setting up IFTTT

To have IFTTT trigger pimatic, use (this)[https://github.com/captn3m0/ifttt-webhook] guide.

In short: you set up IFTTT to create a Wordpress blog post when an event is triggered. The post is send to a website which in turn triggers the pimatic-ifttt API.

For this to work the pimatic API should be publicly accessible. Your router should route traffic from outside your local lan to pimatic. This is a drawback although I'm not sure of the risks. I have only tested this while authentication was disabled. See the Contribute/TODO section below for a solution.

Using pimatic-ifttt

To use this plugin just add a device like explained above. Then use the pimatic rule editor to add actions when the device (or IFTTT event) is triggered.

Contribute

Here's how to set up pimatic-ifttt for development:

$ cd <pimatic-root-directory>/node_modules
$ git clone https://github.com/baswenneker/pimatic-ifttt.git
$ cd pimatic-ifttt
 
# To install all dependencies, execute: 
$ npm install

Tip: use vagrant-pimatic-dev to set up a virtual pimatic development environment.

Running plugin tests

It's easy as pie, just run the following from <pimatic-root-directory>/node_modules/pimatic:

$ grunt test:pimatic-ifttt

The tests are found in <pimatic-root-directory>/node_modules/pimatic-ifttt/test.

TODO: integrate node-ifttt

At the moment the pimatic API should be publicly accessible so that a webservice is able to trigger the pimatic-ifttt plugin. This is not preferable because this allows other people to switch off your lights from the other side of the world :)

To overcome node-ifttt should be integrated with pimatic-ifttt. A short intro to node-ifttt:

This connect middleware exposes a fake WordPress compliant XMLRPC API, so you can use it as an endpoint for an IFTTT WordPress channel.

With node-ifttt integrated we don't have to expose the pimatic API: we only have to allow requests to the node-ifttt server which in turn triggers the pimatic API.