Rule trigger based on email or sms

Scunny · May 2, 2021, 6:30pm

Can someone point me into the right direction to be able to trigger a rule based on either email or sms content?

Thanks in advance.

James · May 2, 2021, 7:37pm

@Scunny, do you have the control of what subject will be in the coming email, and determining the email address where it will be sent to?

Scunny · May 2, 2021, 7:55pm

Yes I do. Sorry for the additional content but was prompted for 20 characters.

James · May 2, 2021, 8:11pm

You cannot trigger a rule by sending the email directly, but you can trigger an IFTTT applet by sending email to IFTTT with a defined hashtag in the subject, and then send a HTTP request to trigger a SharpTools rule using HTTP trigger.

See below for details about the Rule Http Trigger:

Scunny · May 2, 2021, 9:16pm

Thanks James, I was also thinking about maybe Tasker as I have in the past had huge delays with IFTTT triggering.

Any thought on Tasker?

josh · May 2, 2021, 9:45pm

Probably a good question for the /r/Tasker subreddit.

From what I recall, the most common approach for this with Tasker is to read the data out of notifications. Might have more options with SMS notifications in Tasker as there’s a ‘Received Text’ trigger if I remember correctly.

Scunny · July 7, 2021, 9:54pm

I just wanted to share something from the Hubitat group. I have not used this yet but thought it may another solution for those that want to trigger a rule based on email content that you do not have control as the sender.