Certainly – “we” developers do love to do things in “vi” (an Editor). Modifying “config/default.properties” and “config/rules.json” directly for us is like seeing Blondes in the Matrix code for the other one.

In some situations it might be useful to receive notifications upon certain device or trigger states. For example if the battery of radio based sensors goes down. Or you want to get informed if some windows or doors in your building are and/or stay open.

To be honest, we are great fans of Alexa. Yes, even while we do tell all people to watch their privacy. What can I say?

While we originally were building OTDT as a local “Trigger an Action”-Appliance (like IFTTT – “If This Then That” – does in the “cloud”), we recognized that controlling actions in OTDT directly would be a great thing.

Today we launched this website to move forward with OTDT. Several months of development and testing passed by and we are now able to release OTDT into the world.