Figure 12.1: New print job queued email from IFTTT
A Polar3D service is available on the IFTTT web platform. Using IFTTT applets, certain Polar Cloud activities (e.g., queueing a print job, starting a print job, stopping a print job, cancelling a print job,1 finishing a print job, posting a public object, etc.) can trigger actions such as sending an email, sending an SMS text message, sending an IFTTT app notification, logging completed print jobs to Google Drive, saving print job snapshot photos to Google Photos, or posting print job snapshot photos or print job time-lapse videos to Facebook.
For instance, a teacher managing a printer might like to receive an email message whenever a student submits a print job to the teacher’s printer, or whenever a print job completes.
To get started, connect to the IFTTT website,
Especially if you used a Google account or a Facebook account to create your Polar Cloud account, you may wish to use that same account to create a new IFTTT account (if you don’t already have an IFTTT account).
When logged in to IFTTT, search for the “Polar3D” service and “Connect” to it. Follow the directions to authorize IFTTT and the Polar Cloud to communicate.
Then select the Polar3D service applets you wish, such as notifying you via email message of certain Polar Cloud activities.
Additional details can be found in the Polar Cloud Notifications guide available at Polar Cloud DOCUMENTATION. And a video walk-through may be found at the Polar 3D YouTube channel Receive notifications for your 3D prints with IFTTT!
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of services in IFTTT. You can create your own applets interconnecting the Polar3D service to these other services, allowing you to have Polar Cloud events trigger actions in these other services. For instance, if you want Polar Cloud printing to trigger the remote ignition of your car, you can make that happen. (And please let us at Polar 3D know about the exciting things you’ve done.)
Figure 12.1 shows an example of an email from IFTTT that a new print job has been queued; this example shows how such an email might appear when viewed using Gmail (but you may direct such email messages to whatever email address and use whatever email reader you prefer).
1That is, not only stopping the print job, but also removing it from the print queue entirely.