# Spurious IFTTT Beemergency trigger? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bugabee\ **Created:** [October 5, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spurious-ifttt-beemergency-trigger/1211 "2015-10-05T14:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spurious-ifttt-beemergency-trigger/1211/1 "2015-10-05T14:11:27Z")
Howdy, I have an IFTTT trigger set up for any goal in a Beemergency: [![](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9l2wsivfr6spujb/Screenshot%202015-10-05%2007.08.55.png?dl=0) ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9l2wsivfr6spujb/Screenshot%202015-10-05%2007.08.55.png?dl=0) and I noticed it has triggered for a goal that isn’t actually in one: [![](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/colrdlygoez1byr/Screenshot%202015-10-05%2007.10.12.png?dl=0) ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/colrdlygoez1byr/Screenshot%202015-10-05%2007.10.12.png?dl=0) The other two goals actually are in the red, but drinks\_triangle isn’t. The other two sent me an eep! email at 5:30 AM like I expect and drinks\_triangle did not: [![](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9wdxdojmfq4uz28/Screenshot%202015-10-05%2007.11.11.png?dl=0) ](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9wdxdojmfq4uz28/Screenshot%202015-10-05%2007.11.11.png?dl=0) So Beeminder itself must know it isn’t in the red. But whatever hookup IFTTT is using must be sending different data? ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spurious-ifttt-beemergency-trigger/1211/2 "2015-10-10T14:26:55Z")
It seems like this is only happening when the Do Less goal ends the day with less than the daily rate in the bank. For example, both times this has triggered I ended the day with hard cap 2 and my daily rate is 3. ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spurious-ifttt-beemergency-trigger/1211/3 "2015-10-11T16:13:09Z")
Now I’m not as sure because last night I did _not_ get a spurious IFTTT for drinks\_triangle even though I’m using the loophole. Could it be a race condition between the IFTTT notifier and whatever mechanism gives the daily allotment of points to the goal? ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spurious-ifttt-beemergency-trigger/1211/4 "2015-10-17T21:04:04Z")
Good theory, and thank you for the bug report! Tagging this for @bee as a possible #UVI. If you could also give us a sense of how urgent this is, that would help us too. (For example, any bug that could conceivably contribute to a derailment, like failure of eep reminders, we call “nightmare class” and bugs that generate false eeps are “wolf-crying class”, which can, sort of, indirectly cause derailments through desensitization, so also important.) ---
**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/spurious-ifttt-beemergency-trigger/1211/5 "2015-10-18T14:09:08Z")
The impact of the bug is wolf crying as far as I can tell. However, this no longer impacts me personally since I moved all my Do Less goals to a second account as a workaround.