IFTTT, the building block of personal automation
A few years ago I fell in love with If This Then That (IFTTT). It's a remarkable, fre...
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Yes. There is an Android app for IFTTT that makes various aspects of your phone a source for triggers and actions. As far as your personal automation API, you can issue requests to it with a lot of different apps. I personally use Trigger. I continue this series on writing a personal automation API on my blog if you want more details:
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Definitely check out Huginn - github.com/huginn/huginn/
I've had this problem where Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) on Windows doesn't work after the computer has been idle for some time like you mentioned. One fix that I found to this was to ping the Windows machine first, which it does respond to, and then try RDPing into it. Works, no idea why.
AMAZING <3
years ago there was on{X} by Microsoft and it was fantastic until it was deprecated :-(
Thanks for the amazing article. Is there a way to trigger custom scripts on an android with IFTTT?
This is cool but also at the same time an incredibly sad read. A man trapped by his own technology.