Take your smart home to the next level by integrating Google Home into productivity powerhouse IFTTT. Learn how to use IFTTT with Google Home.

With 18 million users running more than a billion applets a month, IFTTT wants to become a service that connects pretty much everything — though some users say it still has room for improvement.

Have you ever wanted your online tools to interact with each other automatically? If so, then the features offered by “if this then that” are for you.

The system here uses a cheap Arduino board, a few sensors, and a magnetic contact switch. It’s then hooked into the Adafruit IO and connected to IFTTT, so you can set up alerts in any way you like.

How to automate your web life with If This, Then That (IFTTT) This article was taken from the May 2013 issue of Wired magazine.