IFTTT (and other External Services) Authorization Issues

[JDRoberts]

There’s a new error that just appeared a few days ago. Report your problem to support, they are still investigating.

SmartThings Support

Here’s the current active discussion on that problem:

Problems connecting from IFTTT (February 2017)

I recently bought my first SmartThings hub (v2) in a kit with two lightify a19 bulbs. So far everything is working great and i can control the lights from the app or my Google Home. However I also wanted to try integrating with IFTTT --but every time i try to connect from ifttt it fails. I’m going to https://ifttt.com/smartthings where I click connect, enter my ST credentials and then get a screen where I select my location and get a list of devices. I check my bulbs under switches and click authorize. And I get message on the next screen that says “Could not connect SmartThings” and ifttt doesn’t let me use SmartThings in recipes – it acts as if I’ve never logged in. I can see IFTTT under Smartapps now in the app on my phone too, but again IFTTT acts as if it can’t see anything. Any ide…