Working on Apilio templates and creating new applets for the Community

[Anna]

Hi @clancyduncan, Life360 applets are coming

It is also possible to link two IFTTT accounts to the same Apilio account, so you can use the location service:

Two ifttt acounts on one apilio acount

It is possible to have two IFTTT accounts connected to one Apilio Account. So in practice, you log into IFTTT account X and connect with Apilio Account 1 then login with IFTTT account Y and connect with Apilio Account 1. This scenario works with information flow in both ways, so you can trigger actions in two IFTTT accounts or set variables in Apilio from different IFTTT accounts! We have plans to have more features for multi-user scenarios (i.e. sharing variables between accounts).

Depending on your setup, I would also recommend using an applet that checks if your phone is connected or disconnected from a specific WiFi: your home WiFi. This is in some instances more reliable that the Location service to trigger logic that depends on you and/or someone else being home.

The applets we are creating are fill-in-the-blanks in the sense that you’ll have to specify which device you want to use, or the event you are listening to, or the variable you want to update.

When creating an applet, we (and any IFTTT brand/user) must specify the trigger and action. Also, same action cannot be repeated (which is something you do on Apilio all the time!).

Remember that any applets that Apilio creates do not count towards your 3 applet limit. So they don’t necessarily have to be packed with actions, we can keep them simple and yet flexible