Gadgetory

hey Rach rest here and I'm going to show you how to use EFT to get creative with home automation if you don't know what it is if there's a website that connects social media sites and online tools like Gmail and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram whatever you can think of it combines them and makes it so you can have one thing happen on one and another thing happened as a result somewhere else now if that sounds confusing don't worry just pull out your smart phone and download the app IFTTT so right from the start as we pull the app up we can see this really classy kind of animated design that shows us what it does and how it does it and it's really easy and intuitive once you get a look at it once you get your fingers on it one of the really cool things about it is that it's compatible not just with web sites also with actual physical products and we've got two of them right here this is the Philips hue light bulb and the Belkin Wemo motion detecting switch both of these have their own channels on if you can say if the motion detector detects movement then post this on Twitter or if something happens on Facebook change the lighting and if you combine them you can do cool things like this right here in the app I can go to my list of recipes that I've turned on and I can hit the plus sign to create a new one what I'm going to do is say that the if will be the motion detector switch I've got right here so scroll over there it is right there the mostly protector switch select that anytime there is any new motion then the result will be that the philips hue light is going to change colors to something random now this is a pretty impractical and not terribly functional usage of it but imagine at a party people moving around the light keeps changing colors might be kind of fun there are much more practical uses you can do - suppose you have a motion detector in your yard and you want to know if someone is prowling around your backyard at night you can set it to change your lamp bright red if that's the case and so as you can see now if I trigger the motion detector and the little blue light goes off sure enough in just a second or the lamp changes colors I can do it again and again and again and it'll keep changing now remember you're not limited to just syncing your devices up with each other like we have here you can sync them up with websites online and tools online like Twitter Facebook Google Documents is a great one suppose every time the motion detector is triggered you want to have a new line put into a spreadsheet to keep track of who's coming and going in your house or something like that that's all doable if you can think of it it's probably possible on IFFT so get creative and give it a shot thanks for watching you see that I'm right Chris