IFTTT Pre-Launch

[hayder78]

@insti

Is there a way to add recipes that modify the road?

I can imagine a lot of useful automation here for automation of the 1 week road flattening or 1 week automatic road dialing.

Auto road dial when a certain calendar event happens which will absorb the whole next week with work (for relevant work to the goal => dial up, for other type of work => dial down) and send me notification for the change.

Rain prediction => auto flatten road and send me notification for the change

This would be a joy to see the automatic road changes depending on my future from my intelligent system. This is an AI system just by using IFTTT.

I can imagine even a nice implementation of @drtall script to calculate the past 1 week average and modify the road dial accordingly. He mentioned this in another thread here.

@drtall

I’ve never had much success with retroratchet. It has lots of sharp edges in the way it is implemented, but beyond bugs there’s also the mental discontinuity you mentioned.

I’ve had more luck with the dashboard I built which displays weekly average rate vs the road dial’s rate. This lets me know if I am on a collision course and need to improve. If I’ve built up a big buffer, I can steepen the road to bleed off the buffer slowly – or maybe I’ll actually start doing more and the buffer won’t go away!

To implement this I can imagine roughly to make 3 triggers which are 3 ranges of safe days (0 to 10 ,11 to 20, 21 to 50) and adjust the road dial steepness accordingly.

The best way to implement it of course if we get triggers for the historical weekly averages instead of safe days, where it would be feasible for a full implementation for @drtall idea just by IFTTT.

Isn’t that super cool?