Please post back whatever you guys decide to use it for.
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Iâm so glad to see that this is a new feature. I was just messing around in IFTTT today and noticed it. I thought Iâd just missed that it was an option and been going for weeks without using it! 
Iâve got some very specific plans for this over the weekend. Gonna set it up to open and close my garage doors with more ânatural Englishâ phrases.
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Now, when they finally get it to the point that Alexa will SAY custom phrases, then itâll be SUPER BOOM!! (at least imhoâŠ)
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@slagle Has there been any movement on getting Routines/Modes added to IFTTT as fully supported actions/triggers?
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Yeah, the Harmony is a good one! So you can change the name of what it triggers? I was just messing with the Find My Phone and wanted to be able to say âAlexa, trigger Find Scottâs Phoneâ (instead of Find My Phone). I should be able to do that?
I am not at home so I cant testâŠlol
Thatâs the idea⊠âAlexa trigger [insert phrase]â
The trigger key world tells Alexa to send the following phrase to IFTTT.
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Wow, this opens up so many awesome possibilities.
Ok, thanks. So whatever the trigger word is then thatâs what you want your IFTTT title to be, cool stuff!
EDIT: Sorry, my lack of experience with IFTTT was showing. I was not creating my own recipe but using a pre-defined one. I got it now
Now if harmony would just give us access to specific button presses (device commands) without using activities.
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The official announcement from Amazon -
Create IFTTT phrase triggers
IFTTT stands for âIF This, Then Thatâ and is a service that connects your favorite devices, apps, and websites with simple rules called ârecipesâ. You can now choose your own Alexa phrases to trigger an IFTTT recipe. For example, you can create a recipe to call your phone, and then if youâve misplaced your phone, you can say âAlexa, trigger find my phone.â Learn more about IFTTT and the popular recipes for Alexa.
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Still something we are asking ourselves how it should work.
^^ This would be fantastic if it ever happened.
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Set up Harmony and it works great. What is the best practice for turning off? Iâve set one up for TV but do I need one for each activity?
There are different ways to set it up, but the easiest is one for each activity plus one recipe to end an activity that controls whatever your master power device is. In my case thatâs my TV. But for somebody else it might be the sound bar or the cable box or whatever.
You can see how I did it way back in the very first iteration of my project in August, when I was using IFTTT recipes, but with smartthings virtual switches. The recipes would be the same except they would be triggered by the Alexa trigger phrase instead of the virtual switch.
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Weâd love to be participate in the discussion.
Not to be flippant, but it doesnât seem particularly complicated except that Routines & Modes do not have IDs (except their names, right?), and are not Authorized like Devices. Any SmartApp (and, therefore, any web service) can access any Routine and any Mode.
Guess the long term solution would be to make Routines and Modes more like Devices; but Iâve said this a dozen times: Mode should be a Capability, then every Location could have a master Device with Capability Mode (that would be easy to share with IFTTT, Echo, etc.), and other ad hoc Mode Devices for various use cases.
Do you have a link to this Recipe?
Yup, here ya go
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Finally got an Echo today. Iâm so impressed with how well it works for controlling lights. Seriously rethinking my use of motion sensors to trigger lights in certain parts of the house as a result.
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