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Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The first router to feature IFTTT support is Google OnHub. IFTTT is an abbreviation of "If This Then That," a free web-based service that can allow users to create "recipes," which are triggered based on changes to other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, etc. OnHub's smart features can now connect to the 300-plus programs and apps supported by IFTTT. Google provides some examples in its blog post. For example, you can automatically prioritize Wi-Fi to your Chromecast when it connects to your OnHub network after you plug it in to start binge watching your favorite TV show, or to your Nest Cam when it senses motion or sound after you've exhausted yourself from said binge watching and passed-out on your couch. There's a friendly little video Google put together to explain the feature in detail.
Actual networking can't be monetized. Selling your QoS decisions to third parties, however, reveals what services you use.
IPv6? Really? This is 2016: I've had dirt-cheap routers with IPv6 support since forever.
This is the same IFTTT that was a total dick to Pinboard.
https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/03/my_heroic_and_lazy_stand_against_ifttt/
Covered on Slashdot back on May 29