Trigger Exhaust Fan with difference in temperature

[mkultra2219]

I would like to trigger an exhaust fan in my garage when my outdoor temperature sensor is X degrees below my garage temperature sensor. I don’t know how to get the temperature from IFTTT to APILIO. I am using Brilliant Smart for my switches and sensors. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Mike

[Drivingforce]

Hello @mkultra2219 and welcome.

@pebneter, think this is one for you
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[DanT]

Yeah, definitely one for the Chief Guru

[Anna]

Working with different sets of temperatures can be tricky! I posted an idea to create a sliding scale of temperatures some time ago, maybe this helps?

Passing Temperature Values from IFTTT to Numeric Variables in Apilio

Hi @Sam, I haven’t been able to find a service that would pass a temperature value from IFTTT either, I suspect there isn’t one. But you can use the actions with thresholds for temperature from EcoBee in a crafty way to trigger your logic We received this question from another user, and this might give you some ideas, they were trying to track the UV index and to turn on a light bulb when it was less than a specific threshold. I cannot give you an exact example without knowing a…

[mkultra2219]

Thanks for reply. That might work. I will give it a try.