IFTTT is a service designed to automate various operations in a sequence set by the user. The IFTTT service can combine several of the most diverse network applications at once in one tool. IFTTT has stable work for its continuous work for four years, during this period the number of channels has increased to eight dozen, and the service itself began to support many hardware devices and mobile phones on all popular platforms (iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
How to use the IFTTTS service on Windows Phone devices
The principle of the service is as follows: each task is divided into two parts – trigger and action. Trigger is a certain condition under which a specific action will be performed. That is, if the trigger is triggered, the action set for it is performed. Actions are compiled from combinations of the supported IFTTT web services, which are called channels. For each channel there is a separate selection of actions with a detailed thin setting, as a result of which a huge number of all kinds of combinations are formed.
Using the IFTTT service is also available for Windows Phone Users. To do this, you will need to install the application of Pushalot, designed specifically for receipt of notifications about the events of interest to the user through IFTTTT. It is third-party application that is used to work with IFTTT, since there is no official client for Windows Phone yet, but PUSHALOT is quite enough to redirect messages from IFTTT to a smartphone as push notifications.
To use IFTTT on Windows Phone, you must first register on the PUSHALOT website, where the user will be issued a personal identification code. On the same service, you can indicate the “hours of silence” – the period of time in which notification will not enter.
Then you need to install the PUSHALOT application on a smartphone, after the launch of which the user will be requested from the data used when registering on the web resource. After successful accounting of the account, the application is automatically synchronized with the server, and the device goes into the notification mode from IFTTTT.
The user can only configure the source of the received notifications – IFTTT Service. To do this, you will need the previously received identification code. After creating his “recipe”, it is attached by the code to the application installed on the smartphone, and all changes will be accompanied by sending push notifications to this smartphone. There are many ready -made solutions of “recipes” that can be viewed on the official website IFTTTT. It takes an average of two minutes to create your own “recipe” to create your own “recipe.
During the receipt of the notification to the smartphone, the user receives vibro and audio signal, and the notification title is displayed in the notifications panel. In addition, there is the possibility of setting the display of notifications directly on the lock screen. After clicking on the line with a notification, the application itself opens, in which the entire list of notifications with the text, images and links will be visible.
How to use the IFTTTS service on Windows Phone devices
PUSHALOT has many options for application, for example, you can configure notifications about events of a certain orientation, the arrival of important entry mail in mail services that do not have customers under Windows Phone, the output of articles of interest, weather, currency courses, the emergence of new photographs of friends in social networks and many Other opportunities available in the IFTTT service channels.
