It should come as no surprise to know that the team at IFTTT has all the latest gadgets, devices, and smart home products on their lists this holiday season. We wanted to create some fun round ups to inspire your own holiday shopping and help you delight the special people in your life.
Take a look at the categories below and select any that fit someone on your list.
Smart lights
Smart lights are the most loved smart home tools on IFTTT. Your favorite lamp just got way better because it can be used to receive alerts or notifications, as an alarm, or just with optimal settings for various moods.
Any or all of these smart lighting companies have incredible products with great functionality and the ability to make it all your own. Check them out to see which one is the best fit for the new home owner in your life.
Philips Hue
[Philips Hue lightbulbs][1] come in color and white versions that give you the ability to choose from millions of scenes and settings. Additionally, these bulbs come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, and styles.
LIFX
[LIFX][2] is a multi-color smart WiFi-enabled LED lightbulb, giving you the ability to choose from custom scenes and create routines that suit your life. Additionally, LIFX Clean is the only smart light in the world that provides timed and scheduled disinfection of objects in your home with scientifically proven HEV lighting.
Wyze
For simple set up and integration options, [Wyze smart bulbs][3] provide color and white LED options.
Top ways to automate smart devices
- Automatically turn your lights on at sunset
133.1k - Turn on/off your lights with one tap on your phone 109.2k
- Turn your lights on automatically as you arrive home 55.7k
- Change the color of your lights when it starts raining
7.0k - Turn your lights on at sunset 9.0k
- Turn on the lights when you arrive home 11.3k
- At Sunrise, Turn Off Wyze bulbs
84 - Turn On Wyze Bulb(s) when Wyze Cam Detects Motion10
- Turn on lights when I am home unless it's sunny outside 1
Smart switches and button pressers
A button presser? Yup.
Smart switches can be added to the wall or a button presser could be used to accomplish many of the same tasks. Again, a big focus here is that you are adding to the devices and items that the new home owner already owns. A smart button presser could turn on a coffee machine in the morning even if the coffee machine was manufactured more than ten years ago. If the appliance has a button, a small robot who loves to press buttons can help upgrade it and automate the tasks it is doing.
Smart switches are easy to install and can be used to control so much more than lights. Temperature settings, fans, shades, and even home security can be automated with a switch. For switches, check out WeMo Light Switch or VeSync switches.
Knocki
Knocki turns any surface into a remote control with custom touch triggers and integrations that make it possible to manage your whole home.
SwitchBot
These helpful SwitchBot button pressers are easy to install and allow home owners to upgrade nearly any appliance or switch in their home. SwitchBots can automate a morning cup of coffee, turn on lights when you get home, or turn on a fan if it gets too warm in your house.
Top Applets for smart switches
Smart home security
Smart home security systems are great gifts for new home owners, but can also help you rest easy at night knowing your loved ones are safe and sound.
With so many options on the market, consider ones that integrate with the other smart devices they have in their home. Check out Wyze, Arlo, Honeywell and the other great security services available on our platform.
Arlo
Arlo security cameras have everything you need to keep an eye on the things you love from every angle, indoors or out.
Honeywell
The Honeywell Home family of smart products includes thermostats (like the T-Series and Round), awareness (like Smart Home Security), and water leak detection. Connect all of your smart home apps together using IFTTT to sync with your lifestyle, automatically.
Wyze
Wyze is making the smart home accessible to everyone with high-quality products that have the features customers care about at a fraction of the price. Connect all your Wyze devices directly in the Wyze app or to the rest of your smart home with IFTTT.
Increase security with these automations
- If you exit an area, arm Arlo
4.7k - If Arlo detects motion, turn on Phillips Hue lights 4.0k
- Play my Sonos favorites when Honeywell Smart Home Security switches to Home mode.
- Close the garage door when Honeywell Smart Home Security switches to away mode.
- Turn on push notifications when I leave home 2.2k
- Disable motion detection when I am home 1.1k
Smart vacuum
Robots are in our homes and ready to do the things we love least, like vacuuming up crumbs before your pet gets them or cleaning the coffee grounds that spilled as you were on your way out the door.
Robot vacuums are easy to use, can be integrated with the other smart technology in your home, and are a great way to save yourself time every day. Additionally, they make great gifts and are extremely popular devices around the holiday season.
With IFTTT, your robot vacuum becomes an automated cleaning machine that can take care of business when you’re out or make sure you are always ready for guests.
iRobot
iRobot®’s devices give you the flexibility to control your cleaning anywhere and anytime. You can create automations for your Roomba® from IFTTT in the form of Applets, or enable any of the smart home connections that are available on the iRobot® HOME app.
Neato
Neato Applets can help you control your Neato connected robot vacuum. You can trigger start cleaning, pause cleaning, resume cleaning, stop cleaning, and dock.
Automate your smart vacuum
Smart weather stations
Integrate your favorite services and devices with accurate weather updates from your backyard! Automatically inform your A/C using smart home technology. Or water your plants automatically if it doesn't rain. By using weather as a trigger for what happens inside your home, you can reduce your electricity consumption and keep your space at an ideal setting.
Tempest
Tempest has created innovative home weather systems for the modern era. Simple to install, easy to configure, and effortless to maintain. You can order yours here.
Netatmo
The Netatmo Weather Station contains a unique set of sensors to monitor your home's temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, noise pollution, and more. Check it out here.
Integrate your smart weather device
- Delay my Rachio Sprinkler cycle when it rains to save water.
232 - Log Tempest data to Google Sheets 135
- Alert me it's freezing by text 89
- Receive a notification when the temperature drops below a certain threshold
4.3k - Turn your lights red when CO2 levels rise above a certain level 1.6k
- Temperature rises above XX° → push notification 1.0k
Mobile devices
A favorite holiday gift is a new phone! With IFTTT's free mobile apps you can customize your phone and use it to automate your favorite tools and devices. Learn more here.
iPhone
What better way to show your loved ones you care, than giving them the latest and greatest iPhone? If you download our IFTTT mobile app, you can customize it with unique widgets and connect it with over 1000 services on the IFTTT platform!
Android
If your loved one is one of the 70% of the world that uses Android devices, they can do really cool stuff with IFTTT. We just released Android Activity which lets you automate everything from running, biking, to driving.
Android Wear OS
Android has a great series of smart watches that are a joy to give and even more to receive. With IFTTT you can build a more custom integration between your watch and your phone!
Increase your mobile integration
- When you start running with Android Activity, automatically add a row to Google Sheets.3
- When you start driving with Android Activity, automatically add a row to Google Sheets.45
- Get a call for important texts
44 - Hey Siri, close my garage door 1.4k
- Music button57.4k
- Turn on/off your lights with one tap on your phone 109.2k
- You forgot your phone!12.8k
- Get an Android Wear notification if it's going to rain tomorrow
8.3k
GIFTTTs for the Smart Home automator
What GIFTTT guide would be complete without the following amazing smart home devices!?
Tapo tp-link
Tapo is a smart home system that includes Tapo Smart Plugs, Smart Bulbs, Smart Switches and more. It works with other leading smart home products such as Amazon Echo, Google Home, and HomePod. Now with IFTTT, you can also create personalized Applets that trigger automatic actions on your Tapo devices.
Ring
Ring is a dual powered (wired or battery-operated) Wi-Fi-enabled, HD video doorbell. The Ring Video Doorbell blends convenience, monitoring and security into one sleek, simple and powerful doorbell that enables homeowners to see and speak with visitors from anywhere in the world.
MyQ
MyQ gives you the power of access and control of your garage door from anywhere. With IFTTT, MyQ can close your door when you leave home, turn up the thermostat when you arrive, and much more.
Blink
Blink is the one-of-a-kind, ultra-affordable, wireless and wire-free home security and full HD video monitoring system.
Adafruit
Adafruit was founded by MIT engineer, Limor “Ladyada†Fried. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and making the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels.
Top Applets from these services
- When the device turned off, then turn on the device
69 - Tapo Motion Detection139
- Save a Photo when detect moviment9.0k
- Blink your Hue lights whenever your Ring doorbell rings
4.2k - Close your MyQ garage when you leave home
7.4k - Turn on your light when your MyQ garage opens 177
- Automatically arm your Blink System when you leave home
7.0k - Disarm your Blink System when you get home 5.6k
- If a feed value hits the threshold, send an IF notification.561
- Turn on Power351
IFTTT gifts
Of course, everything on this list can be taken a step further through automation and integration with IFTTT. With so many services and unlimited possibilities, anyone getting these gifts can do so much more. An IFTTT subscription can also be a great thing to give someone who values automation!
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2024 GIFTTT guide
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