Other popular Email workflows and automations
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Create new todo with an email
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Use Liam Neeson's badass quote from "Taken" to scare someone into returning your phone
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Receive NASA's image of the day in your email
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Get an email if it will rain tomorrow
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Get a daily 6:00 AM email with the weather report
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Create reminder to follow-up e-mail
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Touch NFC Tag & Play Music
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Get an email when your EZVIZ camera senses motion
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Useful Email and Smart Home Solution integrations
Triggers (If this)
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Device turned on
This trigger fires when a specific device is turned on.
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Send IFTTT any email
Send IFTTT any email at trigger@applet.ifttt.com and this Trigger fires. You can optionally add a single file attachment and IFTTT will create a public URL to the file as an Ingredient. This trigger will reject emails with attachments over 30MB.
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Device turned off
This trigger fires when a specific device is turned off.
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Send IFTTT an email tagged
Send IFTTT an email at trigger@applet.ifttt.com with a hashtag in the subject (e.g. #IFTTT) and this Trigger fires. You can optionally add a single file attachment (up to 30MB) and IFTTT will create a public URL to the file as an Ingredient.
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Motion detected
This trigger fires when motion is detected.
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Door opened
This trigger fires when a specific door opens.
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Alarm breached
This trigger fires when the alarm in the house is breached, requires a subscription with alarm functionality.
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Door closed
This trigger fires when a specific door closes.
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Temperature reading received
This trigger fires when a specific sensor reads the temperature.
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Water leak detected
This trigger fires when a water leak is detected.
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Brightness changed on bulb
This trigger fires when a specific light bulb changes brightness.
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Color changed on bulb
This trigger fires when a specific light bulb changes color.
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Smoke detected
This trigger fires when smoke is detected.
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Battery report received
This trigger fires when a specific device reports its battery level.
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Luminance report received
This trigger fires when a specific sensor measures the luminance.
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Glass breakage detected
This trigger fires when glass breakage is detected.
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We detect that the home is empty
This trigger fires when every family member has left.
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We detect that everyone has gone to sleep
This trigger fires when everyone has gone to sleep.
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We detect that someone has woken up
This trigger fires when everyone has woken up.
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At least one person arrives home
This trigger fires when at least one family member has come home.
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Door locked
This trigger fires when a specific door is locked.
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Door unlocked
This trigger fires when a specific door is unlocked






















Queries (With)
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History of everyone has gone to sleep
This query returns a list of when everyone was gone to sleep.
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History of when the alarm triggered
This query returns a list of when the alarm in the house was breached, requires a subscription with alarm functionality.
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History of door locked
This query returns a list of when a specific door was locked.
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History of color changes on bulb
This query returns a list of when a specific light bulb changes color.
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History of device turned off
This query returns a list of when a specific device was turned off.
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History of battery report received
This query returns a list of when a specific device reports its battery level.






Actions (Then that)
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Turn device off
This action will turn a device off given a name.
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Send me an email
This Action will send you an HTML based email. Images and links are supported.
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Turn device on
This action will turn a device on given a name.
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Turn alarm on
This action will turn on the alarm in your house, this requires a subscription with alarm functionality.
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Unlock door
This action will unlock a specific door.
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Change brightness of bulb
This action will change the brightness of a bulb given a name.
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Lock door
This action will lock a specific door.
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Change color of bulb
This action will change the color of a bulb given a name.
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Turn alarm off
This action will turn off the alarm in your house, this requires a subscription with alarm functionality.









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