I am looking for some help to get my proton to trigger my Nest to turn on the fan once a temperature threshold is reached. Any ideas on how to integrate my Proton with a Nest? I found some people have done it, but I haven’t found out how.
Thanks
Jon
It’s “Photon”, not Proton. 
I think you could use IFTTT to get the Photon talking to the Nest. See these links; they should get you started:
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I can get both the Photon and the Nest to send data to different places, but I can’t find recipe to turn the nest on from Photon. I was thinking there was a web hook for Nest, but I haven’t found one.
Thanks for the help.
Hi Jonathan,
if we forget the Photon for a second, is there any recipe in IFTTT that allows you to control your Nest?
thanks
Yes, there about 20 different ones that allow to set temp, turn a fan on, etc.
ok, looking good.
What I would try would be to trigger one of those 20 recipes from the Photon as described here:
https://docs.particle.io/tutorials/integrations/ifttt/
It's been a while I do not use IFTTT, but I think it goes something like this:
1- you add a publish in your firmware running in your Photon with a publish.
Example:
Particle.publish("nest turn on fan", "nest turn on fan", PRIVATE);
2- you create a recipe that will turn on your Nest fan with a trigger from that publish, as explained here
hoping that helps illustrate a bit
Gustavo.
Gustavo,
I could not find an Ifttt recipe that used particle as a trigger for nest. Since there isn’t a way to combined them, I am a little out of luck with IFTTT.
Any other ideas?
Jon
question: have you connected the Particle channel already?
Yes. I have a few IFTTT apps running on other particle projects I have completed.
