ifttt Automatic fan trigger MacOS

[SpeedBird999]

Hi everyone

 

I'll briefly explain my situation: I have a Mac computer located inside a not-so-well ventilated cabined. To play it safe and to guarantee its longevity I've fitted a nice Noctua fan to the back of the cabinet, which helps significantly with keeping the computer cool. Now, the fan is powered with a 12V standard power adaptor and I currently switch on and off the power manually.

This is a minor inconvenience and minor constant power consumption if I forgot it on, but still, I wanted to automate the process.

 

My first thought was to just get one of those cheap smart plug things compatible with IFTTT and to set up a routine that would be like "when the Mac is active, the plug is on, when it goes to sleep/shutdown it's off". The 12V power adaptor would obviously be connected trough the smart plug, and I would be set.

But it turns out that, at least apparently, IFTTT integration on MacOS sucks big time. I was only able to find an utility made by some guy, which has a GUI that's not so great, needs quite a complicated setup and still doesn't really do what I want to do. Perhaps it's just my bad at searching and experimenting with IFTTT...

 

My question then is: you know of any other smart integration method out there that could serve my case? Note that it needs to work on MacOS and it needs to be automatic [I had already though of some Homekit compatible plug, but I might as well stick to the physical switch if I need to open a software every time to turn on the fan]

 

Thank you all 

 

Note: powering the fan from the Mac's USB ports is not an option for the way it's connected to docking stations and monitors...I need to power it off the 12V adaptor.

Note #2: I'm not a native English speaker, pardon the probably not great phraseology.

[WhitetailAni]

Which exact Mac?

[SpeedBird999]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

Which exact Mac?

A Mac Mini

[WhitetailAni]

Just now, SpeedBird999 said:

A Mac Mini

That's not exact.

Which model of Mac Mini?