Does Fibaro work with IFTTT?

By: Ashley Saunders | Fibaro
PUBLISHED: 16th October 2021 | LAST UPDATE: 6th September 2023

Fibaro alone is a powerful home automation system with a fantastic product range that allows you to control pretty much every element of your life. But, not every device works with the system, leading many to ask: Does Fibaro work with IFTTT?

Thankfully, Fibaro and IFTTT work impressively well together, allowing you to turbo-charge your smart home system and integrate a seemingly endless list of devices with the system. This cuts down the amount of work and apps you need to control every element of your home.

As we explore the question: Does Fibaro work with IFTTT, we’ll look at what each system does, how to get them to communicate and what devices you can control using the combined system.

What is Fibaro?

As a leading smart home system, Fibaro allows you to control pretty much every element of your home. The product range includes dimmer modules for lights, smart heating TRV, relays for blinds/curtains or garage doors, sensors that monitor temperature, and power sockets.

The system and devices use the Z-Wave chip, meaning you can incorporate thousands of third-party devices painlessly into the system. You can automate your cinema room, garden lighting, garage door and more, all thanks to Z-Wave products.

Out of the box, Fibaro offers a greater level of flexibility over other Z-Wave based systems.

However, there are still many devices that directly don’t work with Fibaro such as robotic vacuum cleaners, washing machines, fridges and robot lawn mowers. Getting these smart appliances to work with Fibaro, we need third-party software. One solution is IFTTT (If This Then That).

What is IFTTT?

IFTTT is an easy, free way to get apps and devices working together without needing to programme a thing. Think of IFTTT as a digital Swiss army knife that can help Streamline multiple different DIY smart home systems and protocols into a single, coherent system.

Using the system, you create recipes which are a set of commands that work together and are triggered by a specific command, measurement, or signal. With the right IFTTT recipes, you can save time, effort, and energy.

You can use your Fibaro devices with IFTTT, both using the browser interface and mobile app.

Are there any Downsides to IFTTT?

Sadly, IFTTT isn’t perfect. It won’t enable you to integrate every known device into a smart home system. As a web-based service, you’ll always need an internet connection for your applets to run. Another issue is it can be slow as it uses multiple serves to send and receive commands.

IFTTT doesn’t offer customer support. So, unless you can talk with someone who understands how to integrate a device and Fibaro using IFTTT, you will be alone and have to experiment. That said, there are many forums, including the Fibaro one, that can offer support.

Manufacturers can be slow to update their IFTTT options or refuse to offer support as your using their device as part of a system. So be aware that you might end up spending lots of time on forums and experimenting.

Fibaro IFTTT applet

Basic requirements

Getting Fibaro to work with IFTTT, there are a few basic requirements you need to meet. These are:

Fibaro Home Center Lite/2/3 connected to remote access
Fibaro ID account

IFTTT account (with optional app).

Connecting Fibaro and IFTTT

With the basic pieces in place, you need to connect Fibaro and IFTTT together. Here are the steps you need to take:

Open your IFTTT app
Search for Fibaro

Choose Fibaro
Click Connect
Log in to connect your IFTTT account with Fibaro ID

Your accounts now are connected.

Creating an applet

As the two systems can now communicate, you can try some that have been programmed by others or start to build applets yourself. Here’s how:

Create a new applet in Fibaro section
Add first condition

Select type of condition from the list
Select the device
Now it’s time to select the consequence

Tap Fibaro
Choose action
Select device/scene

You can change the name of the applet
Save the applet.

Fibaro IFTTT Triggers actions

Triggers and actions available for Fibaro devices

CO Sensor

Triggers:

CO Alarm

Low battery level
Ovearheat alarm
Tamper alarm

Dimmer

Actions:

Turn on

Turn off

Triggers:

Turned on
Turned off
Overheat alarm

Door/Window Sensor

Triggers:

Low battery level

Door or windows opened
Door or windows closed
Overheat alarm

Device armed
Devices disarmed
Tamper alarm

Double Switch

Actions:

Turn on

Turn off
Toggle

Triggers:

Turned on
Turned off

Overheat alarm
Toggled

Flood Sensor

Triggers:

Low battery level
Flood detected

Tamper alarm

KeyFob

Triggers:

Low battery level
KeyFob clicked

Motion Sensor

Triggers:

Low battery level
Motion detected

Device armed
Device disarmed
Tamper alarm

RGBW

Actions:

Turn on

Turn off

Triggers:

Turned on
Turned off

Roller Shutter

Actions:

Open roller shutter
Close roller shutter

Stop roller shutter
Open lamels
Close lamels

Set roller shutter

Triggers:

Overheat alarm

Single Switch

Actions:

Turn on
Turn off
Toggle

Triggers:

Turned on

Turned off
Overheat alarm
Toggled

Smoke Sensor

Triggers:

Low battery level

Smoke detected
Overheat alarm
Tamper alarm

Swipe

Triggers:

Low battery level

Heat Controller

Triggers:

Low battery level

Button

Triggers:

Low battery level
Button clicked

Wall Plug

Actions:

Turn on
Turn off
Toggle

Triggers:

Turned on
Turned off
Overheat alarm
Toggled

Scenes

Triggers:

Scene activated

Fibaro IFTTT smart appliances

Get notified about water leakage

You can connect your Fibaro Flood Sensor with IFTTT and get e-mail notifications whenever there’s a water leakage incident in your home. Simply, follow these steps:

Open your IFTTT app
Go to My Applets and tap the plus button to add a New Applet
Tap this to browse through the available service
Search for the Fibaro service
Choose Fibaro service as a trigger
Set Flood alarm as a trigger from Fibaro triggers
Choose the right device
Tap Create trigger to continue
Tap that, and search for Notifications
Choose Send a notification from the IFTTT app
Set the content of the notification and tap Create action
Your Applet was created.

Controlling smart appliances using IFTTT

The Home Connect system is used by Bosch, Siemens, Neff, and more, and allows you to control smart home appliances using an app (iOS and Android versions available). You can also connect Home Connect compatible devices to Fibaro using IFTTT.

Just imagine, your Coffee Machine turns on after being activated by a Good morning scene from your Fibaro system! Here is a sample applet that will allow you to achieve this:

Additional requirements

Home Connect account (sign up here)

Connecting

Open your IFTTT app and go to My Applets
Tap “+this” button to add the New Applet
Search for Fibaro Service
Select trigger
Complete trigger fields
Click the blue plus button to add “that” action
Search for Home Connect and choose the device
Select action
Complete action fields
You can edit your new applet title. Click Finish
Your new applet is ready!