What is automatic is reminding me when I leave from home that I’ve been disconnected from the network (not home) and I should check if the camera has been armed. So I have to manually arm it by the link. I guess it’s not directly automatic, particularly due to the false positives (when I’m still home) my phone/IFTTT notification will say “You’ve been disconnected from the network” multiple times, so in that case I don’t want to arm the camera while I’m home. It does suck to think that every minute this Pi will poll 2 places at once, but hey… bandwidth right. So this little feel-good-I-accomplished-something write up here goes over using IFTTT with their “Device disconnects from WiFi” event and then uses a webhook endpoint(remote server POST request) to change a file which the Raspberry Pi will check along with the local web interface. Essentially my Raspberry Pi motion-triggered cam has a local web interface and I have been forgetting to arm it lately. Using IFTTT to automatically arm a home security system when you leave your home.

Athome camera ifttt