I was expecting a ‘Activate’ button or text in the UI. but got a toggle switch that doesn’t work. obviously IFTTT wouldn’t pass back the state when the boil has finished which is fine, i just want to fire the webhook and that’s it.
Am i getting something fundamentally wrong here? I have tested the hook through the dev-event and it works fine, so i know its now just a config issue with how i’m displaying or running the automation?
do you really want to boil your kettle when HA starts?
The item shown in your group only displays the status of the automation. Clicking on it will simply enable or disable the automation, it’s not going to trigger it
to test it, click on the automation name and click on trigger
what you really want/need is an input_boolean that you can switch on, and an automation that uses that input_boolean as a trigger. Hope that makes sense
Ah ok, I follow you a little, your right, I don’t want to boil the kettle everytime it starts. I want a button or something on the UI that does it on demand.
then you need is an input_boolean that you can switch on, and an automation that uses that input_boolean as a trigger.
check this page to get started with automations
Ok so my brain is hurting a little! So i get you create the input Boolean to store the value, so i added this to the configuration file which seems logical;
input_boolean:
boil_kettle:
name: Boil Kettle
initial: off
I then don’t understand how i create the automation and the switch to harness is, I get i need to put a front end switch in but how do i define it?
- alias: Boil Kettle
trigger:
platform: state
entity_id: <Not sure what to put here>
above: <in the docs there is only above and below, but my boolean is 1 or 0?> do i do above 1?
action:
service: ifttt.trigger
data: {"event":"boil_kettle"}
I also need it to reset the button, as i want it to be one click and done rather than reset the switch when the kettle has finished, as there isn’t a way to get the kettles current state sadly. So i’ll have to live with just triggering it to switch on
After playing with this ikettle and ifttt, I find this thing annoying.
There is info you cannot get : water level, water temperature
you need to create a applet for each type of boiling you want to made, depending the temp or the time you keeping warm, or the cooling function, … instead of simply being able to pass some parameters.
and the triggers aren’t smart:
it exist a trigger when boiling is over, and a trigger when keeping warm is over.
but actually the first trigger is only triggered when you’re doing only boiling ! If your boiling and keeping warm, then the boiling over trigger will never been triggered ! Only the warm trigger will be trigger at the end … this is silly.
At the end I’m only using a stupid boolean to switch on or off the boiling, so there is no point to have that ikettle than a regular kettle connected to a remote switch…