How to Create Your Own Smart Zoom Status Light

All you need is a Smart Bulb and an hour to automate the communication of your meeting status to your kids as Red/Green

High-level system architecture diagram for the Zoom->Smart Bulb Integration

If you’re finding this article, then you likely are looking for ways to help your kids (or roomates) know that you’re in a Zoom meeting and its not a good time to come in and bother you. I have a separate article that goes into the reasons that I built this solutiion, and how effective it has been at improving the work → home life relationship between me & my kids. The goal in this article is to walk you through the process so you can set it up yourself if needed. The basic setup is shown in the hero image at the top of the article. It works like this:

1. A custom Zoom App for yourself sends an even to a webhook whenever your Zoom status changes
2. An Integromat App to handle that webhook event and create a simple 2-state state-machine
3. Whenever the state changes in the 2-state state machine, the Integromat function fires another Webhook event over to IFTTT
4. IFTTT handles the webhook and has a recipe to set the proper color on your Smart Bulb ( I used a TPLink Kasa Bulb, but IFTTT it works with nearly every vendor out there)