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Automate Department of Defense and iSecurity+ from your AI assistant
Ask Perplexity to run queries on Department of Defense news and photo essays with IFTTT MCP.
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Create your own Department of Defense and iSecurity+ workflow
Create custom workflows effortlessly by selecting triggers, queries, and actions. With IFTTT, it's simple: “If this” trigger happens, “then that” action follows. Streamline tasks and save time with automated workflows that work for you.
12 triggers, queries, and actions
Activity seen by camera
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This Trigger fires every time the camera sees something important moving. It will try to ignore shadows, moving tree leaves, and similar 'noise', while still seeing moving cars, pets, and people. (A premium service upgrade is required to enable smart visi
Motion detected by camera
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This Trigger fires every time the camera detects motion. Requires motion detection to be enabled on your camera.
News articles
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a news article is published by the Department of Defense.
Person seen by camera
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This Trigger fires every time the camera sees a moving person. (A premium service upgrade is required to enable people detection.)
Photo essays
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a new photo essay is published by the Department of Defense.
History of activities seen by camera
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when the camera saw something important moving. It will try to ignore shadows, moving tree leaves, and similar 'noise', while still seeing moving cars, pets, and people. (A premium service upgrade was required to enable smart
History of motion detections by camera
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when the camera detected motion. Requires motion detection to be enabled on your camera.
History of news articles
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when a news article is published by the Department of Defense.
History of when a Person was seen by camera
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when the camera saw a moving person. (A premium service upgrade was required to enable people detection.)
Aim your camera
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
If your camera supports pan and tilt, you can use this Action to control where the camera is pointing.
Disable camera motion detection
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will disable motion detection on one of your iSecurity+ cameras.
Enable camera motion detection
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will enable motion detection on one of your iSecurity+ cameras.
Activity seen by camera
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This Trigger fires every time the camera sees something important moving. It will try to ignore shadows, moving tree leaves, and similar 'noise', while still seeing moving cars, pets, and people. (A premium service upgrade is required to enable smart visi
Aim your camera
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
If your camera supports pan and tilt, you can use this Action to control where the camera is pointing.
Disable camera motion detection
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will disable motion detection on one of your iSecurity+ cameras.
Enable camera motion detection
Action
An action is the task your Applet carries out after the trigger occurs. It defines what happens as the result of your automation and completes the workflow.
This Action will enable motion detection on one of your iSecurity+ cameras.
History of activities seen by camera
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when the camera saw something important moving. It will try to ignore shadows, moving tree leaves, and similar 'noise', while still seeing moving cars, pets, and people. (A premium service upgrade was required to enable smart
History of motion detections by camera
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when the camera detected motion. Requires motion detection to be enabled on your camera.
History of news articles
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when a news article is published by the Department of Defense.
History of when a Person was seen by camera
Query
A query lets your Applet retrieve extra data that isn't included in the trigger, so that your automation can include more complete or useful information.
This query returns a list of when the camera saw a moving person. (A premium service upgrade was required to enable people detection.)
Motion detected by camera
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This Trigger fires every time the camera detects motion. Requires motion detection to be enabled on your camera.
News articles
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a news article is published by the Department of Defense.
Person seen by camera
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This Trigger fires every time the camera sees a moving person. (A premium service upgrade is required to enable people detection.)
Photo essays
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every hour on Free, every 15 minutes on Starter, and every 5 minutes on Pro and Pro+.
This trigger fires when a new photo essay is published by the Department of Defense.
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If
Select a trigger the automation will use
Activity seen by camera
Motion detected by camera
News articles
Person seen by camera
Photo essays
Then
Select an action the automation will perform
Aim your camera
Disable camera motion detection
Enable camera motion detection
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About Department of Defense
Department of Defense and IFTTT help you stay on top of defense news and photo essays as they're published.
About iSecurity+
iSecurity+ and IFTTT let you automate your video cameras based on motion, people, and activity detection.