I'm using a neat little IFTTT recipe that automatically responds to text messages I receive through Google Voice. This one, to be precise.
I only need it to run when I'm at work, so I've been turning it on and off manually every day as needed.
Is there any way to make the recipe active only at set times? Like between 9 am and 5 pm on weekdays, for example?
At first I thought the Date & Time channel would be useful but it doesn't look like there's a way to use it to trigger existing recipes or chain recipes together.
I did some internet searching and found this post on r/IFTTT asking the same question and receiving no answers.
Best Answer
It doesn't look like it. They have the trigger half of the solution with the Date & Time channel. You can set actions to trigger on certain days of the week at certain times. So imagine one recipe to turn your Google Voice recipe on at 9am and one to turn it off at 5pm.
However, the IFTTT channel has no actions to do anything like turn on or off a recipe. You could consider contacting them to ask if they could add these features. My guess is they've considered it and thought that either no one would use it, or it would be abused in some way.