A set “Welcome home” programs

[fasttimes]

I have an Insteon relay that can monitor and control my garage. In addition the ISY, I also have in my home network a Nest themostat and several google home speakers.

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZZQY8I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_shAkAbN2F9ZWW

 

I’d like a program that will trigger under the following conditons:

 

The Nest thermostat is set to AWAY and the Garage relay just triggered “open”

 

And the action would be to turn on some lights, and have Google Home start playing music on one of my google home speaker (or better yet, a Google Home “speaker group”)

 

Is there a way of doing this? Can the ISY or IFTTT make music play on speakers?

 

And the second program would be: The Nest thermostat is set to AWAY and the Garage relay just triggered “open” AND the temperature on the Nest thermostat is less than 67 degrees.

 

The action would be the same as the one above (lights and music) but it will execute a scene I currently have (it turns on the fireplace for 10 mins)

 

This is what a smarthome should be like.

[apostolakisl]

Based on my reading

 

1) IFTTT can track nest.  Since IFTTT can send REST commands to ISY (assuming you have port forwarded/set up https or are using the portal), then you can set a variable in ISY that tracks the state of your nest.

2) To the best of my knowledge, you can not tell google home to play music from anything but a voice command to it.  Maybe I'm wrong.  

 

So, you can easily have a program run when the nest variable in ISY is set to some value and the garage door insteon device sends an opening command.  That in turn can turn lights and stuff on, but I don't think the google home music is a possibility.

[asbril]

Based on my reading

 

1) IFTTT can track nest.  Since IFTTT can send REST commands to ISY (assuming you have port forwarded/set up https or are using the portal), then you can set a variable in ISY that tracks the state of your nest.

2) To the best of my knowledge, you can not tell google home to play music from anything but a voice command to it.  Maybe I'm wrong.  

 

So, you can easily have a program run when the nest variable in ISY is set to some value and the garage door insteon device sends an opening command.  That in turn can turn lights and stuff on, but I don't think the google home music is a possibility.

Very interesting....   I am not all knowledgeable about REST but I know how to work with IFTTT (from PORTAL to IFTTT).  How would I create a command in IFTTT from my Nest to my ISY ?

[apostolakisl]

Very interesting....   I am not all knowledgeable about REST but I know how to work with IFTTT (from PORTAL to IFTTT).  How would I create a command in IFTTT from my Nest to my ISY ?

Any "if this" can result in a "then that" where the "that" is a web request.  The web request (webhook) takes the standard http format detailed in the ISY wiki for submitting REST commands.  You can run a program, set a variable, changes the status of an insteon device, etc.

Edited December 7, 2017 by apostolakisl