Re:Introducing IFTTT for iPad and the iOS Notifications Channel
by mrtibbets on Saturday April 12, 2014 @09:21PM
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Here's a few options you might try:
—Activate the SMS Channel with your wife's cell number instead of yours, that way when you're near using an iOS Locations Recipe she gets the text instead of you.
—Do the same thing but with the Phone Call Channel instead: https://ifttt.com/phone_call
—Use Twitter to send Direct Messages to your wife when you're near with this Recipe: https://ifttt.com/recipes/132947-nearly-home-direct-message-...
—Lastly, you could install any number of the notifications apps supported (Boxcar, Pushover, Pushbullet) on your wife's phone and use that specific account on IFTTT to send notifications.
What do you think? I hope this helps!
—Alexander, who works at IFTTT.
first of all you can use the iOS Locations, but you can't combine two different "this", so I can't add, as I'd like, an additional condition on the time ("i'm near her office and it's between 5pm and 7pm"). Ok, I can't live without it, but it would be better to have two conditions.
On the other side ("that") I've tried:
SMS: you can't send to a number different than yours / you can only set one number for the SMS channel (with a PIN validation) / you can't have multiple SMS channels
Email: it seems you can only send an email to yourself I could probably use Gmail (by reading info here and there it looks it could support multiple recipients) but I'd prefer not to configure my personal Gmail account on my company-controlled phone
Whatsapp: it is not supported as a channel (same for Hangouts afaik)