Trigger Event for When All Emails Are Read (Office 365 and Luxafor)

Question

I have a simple goal: I want to turn on a busylight device (basically an LED light) when a new email is received to signal people to check the computer for the new email.

For that, I have a simple Zap connecting to my Office 365 account and triggering an email event on “New Email”. The event is processed via Luxafor which turns on busylight to Red Color. With that, the Busylight turns red when a new email is received. So far so good. But obviously I want it to change color (i.e. switch to no color) again when the email is read. This is where I’m stuck. I don’t find a way to send an event for “when all new emails have been read” or similar.

The only solution I found so far is to only flash the light for some seconds when a new email is received and then stop flashing but it’s not really what I want because potentially people miss the flashing event.

Am I missing something or is this impossible?

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Best answer by Danvers 19 October 2022, 12:05

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Danvers · Accepted Answer

Hi @danielfr!As Christina mentioned, we don’t have an existing feature request for this and I can’t think of a way to do this directly through the Outlook inbox, but I’m wondering if a semi-manual solution would work for you?You could set up a Zap that is triggered by a webhook and use that to turn the light off. Then you just need a service or app that will send the webhook. For example, I use Alfred to send webhooks to Zapier based on a keyboard command. This blog post explains how you can do that: Zapier for AlfredObviously you don’t have to use Alfred, that’s just what I’m familiar with. There are also physical products like Flic that integrate with Zapier and would pretty well for this kind of use - just tap the flic button when you’ve finished checking any unread emails.I know that’s not the solution you were looking for but let us know if you think it might work!

christina.d · Answer

Hey there, @danielfr!Thanks for flagging this in community! I did some digging and while I wasn’t able to find open feature requests for a “Read Email” trigger, it might be worth opening a new onewith my friends in support.It doesn’t guarantee implementation but it may help us gauge interest moving forward! 🙂

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