AlbertMN
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4 years ago This won't affect most ACC users You most likely won't have to pay for IFTTT. They haven't been great at communicating this, but the new change that has resulted in a 3 free applet limit means;
- You can still enable unlimited applets made by others
- You can only create 3 applets yourself - not enable, create
- this means if you're a heavy user of the
openaction, or generally just create your own applets for ACC or anything else, this will affect you. I will create a large number of dublicate applets of theopenaction and the ones like it, that require an applet per thing you wish to open
- this means if you're a heavy user of the
- You can set your own price - as low as $1.99 (only a couple of days left on this offer)
- so if the features like applet support and filter codes sound compelling to you, you don't have to pay $9.99/mo
- the "set your own price" will be honored for life
There is no direct alternative IFTTT is a great way to make ACC work with hundreds of services. You have always been able to mix and match the services, and fx. make your PC shut down when your smart-dishwasher is done. ACC still honestly doesn't have a lot to do with IFTTT - all the software understands, is that a file lands in a folder that it's watching, it reads the file and act accordingly. This means you can use it in a million other ways - but I have personally not found any alternatives to IFTTT that makes it possible as easily.
ACC won't be re-coded to work in a different way than it does; it will keep working the same way. If anyone finds a platform like IFTTT that makes it possible to easily make files appear in your cloud service folder when you fx. ask your personal assistant to do it, please let us all know - but until then, IFTTT is the easiest way to do this.
Once again, this won't affect most users of ACC. If you are a heavy user of IFTTT, and have a lot of applets you've made yourself, it might be worth subscribing to IFTTT pro anyways. I am not a fan of the 3 applet limit at all - I think it's way too low, and I'm not trying to defend IFTTT here... But the community has voiced its concern a thousand times - it's been heard, but we're not expecting to see any changes on that front (yet - you can still hope). A limit on 5-10 would be fair IMO.
(this is an elaborate response, so any other users that find this will get all the information they need - thanks for the question! It's been asked privately on Discord, but needed a good place to properly address it, other than on Twitter)
Just wondering if there is a self hosted alternative for IFTTT, I'm tired of paying subscriptions for trivial things and as far as I know, IFTTT is already charging manufacturers to publish their applets!