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Popular Plexilent workflows & automations
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Turn off your Plexilent lights when you leave home
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Get a notification when a Plexilent light turns on
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Turn off your Plexilent lights at sunrise
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Turn on your Plexilent lights when you get home
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Open your Plexilent curtains every morning
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Close your Plexilent curtains at sunset
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Create your own Plexilent 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.
8 triggers, queries, and actions
Light turned on
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires every time the light you choose turns on, whether from the Plexilent app, a wall switch, a voice assistant or another Applet.
Light turned off
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires every time the light you choose turns off, whether from the Plexilent app, a wall switch, a voice assistant or another Applet.
List lights
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 every light in your Plexilent homes with its room and whether it is on or off.
Turn on
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 turn on the Plexilent light, switch or fan you choose.
Turn off
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 turn off the Plexilent light, switch or fan you choose.
Set brightness
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 set the brightness of the Plexilent light you choose.
Set color
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 set the color or white temperature of the Plexilent light you choose.
Set curtain position
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 open, close or move the Plexilent curtain you choose to a position.
Light turned on
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires every time the light you choose turns on, whether from the Plexilent app, a wall switch, a voice assistant or another Applet.
Light turned off
Polling trigger
Polling Applets run after IFTTT reaches out to the trigger service and finds a new trigger event. These trigger checks occur every 5 minutes for Pro and Pro+ users, and every hour for Free users.
This trigger fires every time the light you choose turns off, whether from the Plexilent app, a wall switch, a voice assistant or another Applet.
List lights
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 every light in your Plexilent homes with its room and whether it is on or off.
Turn on
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 turn on the Plexilent light, switch or fan you choose.
Turn off
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 turn off the Plexilent light, switch or fan you choose.
Set brightness
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 set the brightness of the Plexilent light you choose.
Set color
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 set the color or white temperature of the Plexilent light you choose.
Set curtain position
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 open, close or move the Plexilent curtain you choose to a position.
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About Plexilent
Plexilent makes smart lights, wall switches, fans and curtain motors that work together over a Bluetooth mesh, connected to the cloud by the Plexilent Wi-Fi gateway. Connect Plexilent to IFTTT to switch, dim and color your lights, move your curtains, and run Applets whenever a light turns on or off — from the Plexilent app, a wall switch or a voice assistant.