Using IFTTT with the Jawbone UP

Using IFTTT with the Jawbone UP -

The Jawbone UP fitness tracker is a lot more useful now that Jawbone has opened the API to third-party developers. One of the most exciting companies tapping into the UP platform is online automation tool, IFTTT. In the article below, I will talk a little bit about connecting your UP to IFTTT and then list some of my favorite recipes.

IFTTT is an automation tool that allows you to setup tasks that happen at a certain time or in response to a certain event. It uses a trigger event ("If this happens") to initiate an action ("then do that"). Within the IFTTT framework, you create what are called recipes to select the trigger event and its resulting action. For example, you can create a recipe that uses a date/time trigger to send you an email at the same time each day.

IFTTT is extremely useful because it ties into services, called channels, like Dropbox, Google Calendar and, of course, the topic of this post, the Jawbone UP. With IFTTT and an UP, you can do a myriad things like update your UP mood to exhausted when you get less than 6 hours of sleep, automatically add your morning coffee to your UP food list, and log the daily weather. Configuring the UP within IFTTT is extremely easy.

Just login to the IFTTT dashboard and click on the UP channel to activate your Jawbone account. You have to login to your Jawbone account and authorize Jawbone to share info with IFTTT. You can share your moods, moves, meals, events, sleep info, weight and more between IFTTT and UP. It's a bi-directional connection so you can pull down info from UP and send new information back to the fitness tracker. As you can imagine, there are a lot of ways to interact with the Jawbone fitness tracker using IFTTT.

Below are some of my favorite IFTTT recipes for the UP.

• See the big picture of how you sleep. Track your Zzz's with a spreadsheet!

• If I get more than X hours of sleep, set my mood to 'energized' in my Jawbone UP feed

• Share Foursquare gym check-ins to your Jawbone UP feed

• Log my UP meals and their nutritional content into a Google spreadsheet

• Send your spouse a friendly email when you get below 7 hours of sleep

• Tweet when I walk more than 10,000 steps

• Remind me if I don't work out for 3 days

• If I get less than 5 hours of sleep, put on a pot o' coffee with WeMo

• #sunshine brings better #mood

• Tag an Instagram photo with #UP to share it with your team

There are now 110 recipes on IFTTT for the UP and this number is climbing. If you have an UP, let us know in the comments if you use it with IFTTT.

Using IFTTT with the Jawbone UP originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 May 2013 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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