Sending events from IFTTT to Home Assistant - webhooks broken?

pejotigrek · November 2, 2018, 4:23pm

almost every topic I’ve found about this - is using the old method with url like https://XXX.duckdns.org/api/services/?api_password=YYY
but as we can configure integration with IFTTT now slightly differently - I’m using the “new” method and… it’s still failing for me

as most of us in similar cases, I want to run a script after talking to Google Assistant. configuration & integration is done and works [I can see no errors tied with them in the logs. base_url & all the rest is set in config]. my IFTTT looks like this:

Make a web request:
  URL: https://XXX.duckdns.org:27/api/webhook/YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
  Method: POST
  Content Type: application/json
  Body: { "action": "call_service", "service": "script.turn_on", "entity_id": "script.some_script" }

IFTTT is triggerred correctly, because after my configured hot word/sentence Google Assistant responses with my custom phrase and then nothing happens. script is not started. IFTTT logs show time when it was last runned, without errors. HA log isn’t showing anything new to me also [I mean: nothing IFTTT/script related].

Am I missing something?

JuanM · November 2, 2018, 4:50pm

You also need to create an automation with the following:

automation:
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ifttt_webhook_received
    event_data:
      action: call_service
  action:
    service_template: '{{ trigger.event.data.service }}'
    data_template:
      entity_id: '{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}'

pejotigrek · November 2, 2018, 5:09pm

oh, I thought that automation is needed only if I didn’t specified service etc. in the body of IFTTT trigger…
my mistake then!

thanks, will check in a minute if it works

TommyH · February 20, 2019, 9:40am

hi @ [pejotigrek] did you solved this issue?
Can you please share. I got same issue even configured automation already.

pejotigrek · February 20, 2019, 10:05am

hi!

it works for me exactly like in the post marked as soluton.
this is my exact automation:

- alias: automate_ifttt
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: ifttt_webhook_received
      event_data:
        action: 'call_service'
  action:
    - service_template: '{{ trigger.event.data.service }}'
      data_template:
        entity_id: '{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}'

and IFTTT config is like:

URL: https://MY.DUCKDNS.DOMAIN/api/webhook/MY.WEBHOOK.HASH
METHOD: POST
CONTENT TYPE: application/json
BODY: { “action”: “call_service”, “service”: “script.turn_on”, “entity_id”:“script.MY_SCRIPT” }

and simple phrases entered to your liking

TommyH · February 20, 2019, 10:44am

Thank you very much.
I found the mistake in my URL

ccycv · February 28, 2019, 1:40pm

Where? I have the same issue, I’m using the new URL format but it is not working…

I use this content in the body :

{ "action": "call_service", "service": "vacuum.start", "entity_id": "vacuum.kraken" }

Thx

TommyH · March 7, 2019, 2:07pm

Hi
Please follow:

Click to the integration, then config the IFTTT
When the pop up appear, copy the URL link
Go to IFTTT and setup your applet with URL above
Create an automation as instructed
It should work

parosen · March 20, 2019, 2:10am

Hi, I’m new with HA. I have a problem setting up the automation part. This is how my automation.yaml looks like

id: ‘1552841249457’
alias: automate_ifttt
trigger:
- platform: event
  event_type: ifttt_webhook_received
  event_data:
  action: call_service
  action:
- service_template: ‘{{ trigger.event.data.service }}’
  data_template:
  entity_id: ‘{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}’

Even the IFTTT event is fired, nothing happens. The only strange thing is that the internal homeassistant editors marks the action part of the automation as invalid action. But I can’t find the solution.
Thanks in advanced

pejotigrek · March 23, 2019, 9:59am

hi! sorry for delay!

don’t know if it is an issue but in yaml spaces/formatting is VERY important! looking at the code you’ve pasted, I can see some troubles with formatting - maybe that’s it?

it should look like this:

- id: '1552841249457'
  alias: aut_ifttt
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event_type: ifttt_webhook_received
      event_data:
        action: 'call_service'
  action:
    - service_template: '{{ trigger.event.data.service }}'
      data_template:
        entity_id: '{{ trigger.event.data.entity_id }}'

[pay attention to identation]. also - try putting “call_action” into single quotes like I did.
oh, and if you’re pasting the code here - try to use the proper formatting too [you can paste the yaml, select it and press “</>” button over the editing window here]. that will make us sure how your yaml looks like in terms of formatting

parosen · March 25, 2019, 1:21am

Thank you very much! That was the problem! Everything working now!

pejotigrek · March 25, 2019, 7:40am

great! I’m happy that I could help

blattmann · June 10, 2019, 8:50am

That solved my problem!!!
I am using Nabu Casa to connect to my Home Assistant server.

alfredofenoglio · July 25, 2019, 12:48pm

Just to share my experience, in my case I was having a lot of troubles to get it working and the issue was with the " vs ” symbols. I just did copy and paste using ” instead of using " standard quotes.
It is fixed and working fine now.

tgw2000 · August 2, 2019, 1:09am

This is doing my head in, I have set this up exactly the same and it does nothing. I see nothing in my logs either…

Is there a way to test my webhook url for any possible routing issues?

tgw2000 · August 2, 2019, 2:25am

… must be an issue on IFTTT’s end, ran my POST request on https://apitester.com and it works perfectly.

pejotigrek · August 2, 2019, 9:12am

check for any space/formatting issues, wrong quote-signs etc. many of my troubles with different automations/configurations were because of accidentally entered characters in the config. it’s possible that post may be working, but HA can’t deal with it because of some config issues.

DougAmes · August 3, 2019, 3:26pm

Did you check your IFTTT activity log? It will tell you if your web POST happened, and whether it got a success response or a failure code.

pbocsak · August 29, 2019, 10:49am

would anyone happen to know how is it that we can read a value sent from IFTTT? For instance, I want to set my lights to xx brightness, how would I read that value in my automation? I’ve tried trigger.event.data.entity_id.value but that doesn’t work ( I get an error when running a check config in HASS).

Thanks

pejotigrek · September 2, 2019, 7:47pm

I’m not sure, and can’t test it right now, but AFAIR you’ll need to add this to your IFTTT recipe’s body somewhere:

"variables": { "value1":"{{Text}}" }

and then, in automation it should work just with entering the {{ value1 }} variable.