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SmartyPants

2019-12-20 21:39:52

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Notifications for when device is on or off or anything else

2019-12-20 21:39:52

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Is there a way to get notifications on my phone or via email when the switch is turned on, or off, or when it's been on for a while, or any other states? I don't see anything that allows me to do this. I took a peak at IFTTT and I didn't see anything there either, but I've never really played around with that.

Is this a feature that's coming anytime soon? Having notifications seems like a key feature to it being a smart device. My WEMO devices have this and it'd be great if the TPLINK devices did as well.

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Carl

2019-12-21 00:29:33

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Re:Notifications for when device is on or off or anything else

2019-12-21 00:29:33

@SmartyPants

Because our devices are only action devices on IFTTT this would not be possible with that service. We may be able to add this to a smart action but at this time i have not heard of any plans for such a feature. I will forward this to R and D as a request though.

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2019-12-21 00:31:35

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2019-12-21 00:31:35

@Carl Thanks for the reply. I would imagine this is a commonly requested feature. Everything has notifications now a days :). Having smart devices let you know when it's on or off or when some action has been done would be awesome.

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2019-12-21 00:37:18

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2019-12-21 00:37:18

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Actually its the first time I have seen this particular request, but it does seem like it should be requested a lot more. I know there will be people like me that hate notifications and turn them off when ever possible but others do find the useful. I am actually in the process of emailing the team I'll let you know when they respond.

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Re:Notifications for when device is on or off or anything else

2019-12-21 01:17:42

Thanks! That'd be awesome. Just FYI, I searched the forum and found at least one other person asking from a while back https://community.tp-link.com/us/home/forum/topic/99204?replyId=211008. Not that it makes a huge argument for it :).

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2019-12-31 00:23:25

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2019-12-31 00:23:25

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Thanks for the heads up. As you can imaging keeping up on these things can be a challenge in its own right. I will review the other post and update both as soon as i hear anything.

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