Belkin’s Wemo family of smart-home devices has gradually become a very talkative bunch—and that’s a compliment in the connected-home market. Following in the footsteps of the WeMo Switch, Insight Switch, Light Switch, Maker, and Motion connected-home offerings, the company’s smart bulbs have now also acquired an IFTTT (IF This Then That) channel of their own.
“Adding IFTTT compatibility to the WeMo LED bulbs builds upon the successful relationship between IFTTT and WeMo and creates an even larger ecosystem for controlling and customizing household lighting,” the company said in a press release.
IFTTT is a popular automation platform that acts as a liaison between various Web services, apps and devices in such a way that any change in the behavior of one device or service (say a thermostat) can be made to trigger changes in the behavior of another (say a bulb) . The automation happens by the way of simple user-defined conditional statements called “recipes.”
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