This video assumes that you already have your Onyx by Orion paired with your iPhone
or your Android device, and that you already have an account with Onyx by Orion.
Within IFTTT, and this is where everything starts, you can
actually search for Onyx or Orion and you will find the Orion service. Now what
you're going to do is connect that service to your account that you've
already used to sign up when you were setting up your Onyx device. So you'll
need to authorize and then from there you can see all of these applets that
are already here. You can see integration with Wemo, you can see integration with
Gmai,l Samsung SmartThings and down at the bottom, just on the base
page, we actually have access to Alexa as well. You can see the trigger. So you can
choose which group, who says what, and what word or phase, and then you can also
choose the action and again which group. Here's who specifically in that group
hears it and what does your Onyx say. So basically you're going to either be able
to trigger through certain words, and you're also going to be able to cause
certain messages to come out of your Onyx. Now that you've connected IFTTT,
let's go ahead and create a new applet to help you manage your life.
I'm going to use Google Calendar,
but I'm going to choose one of my Google calendars, and whenever an event starts,
15 minutes before that event, I'm going to create a trigger. I'm going to use
Orion as the action here. Now I'm going to send a voice message. That's all you
can do in terms of actions out of Orion, and you can pick the group, and you can
pick who hears it. So I can choose just myself, and then I can choose to add the
different ingredients. So I could add title, description, where it is starts, and
I could craft my message however I'd like. So this allows you to hear
notifications whenever a calendar event is coming up.
Now there's a large number of services. I'm going to choose the Environmental
Protection Agency right now, and I'm going to trigger on the latest news. I
could filter by keyword if I wanted to, filter by a storm, or a fire, or an
earthquake, or whatever, but we can use this service to actually trigger
notifications on to our Onyx device. So again I can choose Orion. I'll choose to
send a voice message. I can choose which group and who hears it, and I can add the
different ingredients. So here I would change it to essentially be the
environmental agency alert, and then I put the title, and then I'd say applies
to region, and then add that ingredient. So each time there's something put out
by the EPA, I'm going to get this notification. And again you
could filter this parameter. I think as more and more of our homes get
connected with different appliances, we're going to want more notifications
from our devices, to other devices. So I'm going to use a door left open from my
Samsung Fridge, and I could use that to actually trigger a notification on Onyx.
Of course I could trigger from any other service I wanted. Social media is a massive
component of lots of people's lives, and one thing that I think bugs a lot of
people, is when you're tagged in a photo, and you don't know about that. So you can
actually fire a trigger whenever you're tagged on a photo, and you can have that
output to your Orion device. So you'd be able to hear about it immediately, and
with every notification from IFTTT, you get a link on your phone.
So again, I could add all kinds of different ingredients. Who did it, the
caption, etc., etc.. Now something I like from eBay, you can actually set up a
trigger based on a search parameter. So you can enter in your search terms and
you can also set a maximum price, so this is allowing you to
scour eBay and get a trigger every time someone finds a Google Home for under
$100. What you can do is you can send that message to your Onyx device and you
can get all the information, so you are instantly going to find out when a new
item comes up for the Google Home, and you could set up multiple of these
triggers for multiple products. Then you could go instantly and buy it if it
was a good price. Let me show you what that looks like.
Now I've used this in terms of a business automation applet before, but you could
also use this at your home. If you did get a trigger from a device like from
your SmartThings, either a motion sensor, or your door opens, or a switch turns on
or off, you could actually fire a trigger and notify yourself through your Onyx
device. This would then be an alarm system essentially. Or you could just use it to
notify yourself that something is open, or something is in a state. This will
work with all kinds of sensors, and all kinds of systems. I happen to be using
Samsung SmartThings right now, but again you can trigger who hears it and you can
also customize what to say. Now finally I think one of the biggest things for
anybody is email. And Gmail is a great service. Again I've used this in previous
videos with the Onyx, but you could trigger, on any new email, you could
trigger on an email based on search, and if you wanted you could set any search
parameter. It could be from a specific person, and then you could actually
trigger Orion and your Onyx device to therefore read it out to you. So you can
add the entire body in here if you'd like. You could say new email from a
specific person, and then here's the subject, and now here's the body, and you
could read out that entire email if you'd like. So I think that's a ton of
personal automation. You can truly automate your life with these devices.
It's different than having say a Google Home or an Amazon Echo because you can
actually get these devices to read something out to you. Whereas
those other home automation hubs will not do that at this time. So this
actually sets the Onyx apart from most other home automation devices, and gives
you a lot of flexibility.
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