No errors in IFTTT applet log, but no file created in dropbox either

This has been an ongoing issue for months and it is as yet unresolved. I’ll give a little update here with the different behaviors I’ve observed and what I’ve tried:

1. Attempt: changed the file name in the IFTTT applet.

Result: the first time the applet was triggered, it created a file. Each subsequent triggering did not create a file.

Interesting note 1: the companion applet (for when the last person leaves) has the same file name structure but creates a file every time and the files have the string “ (#)” just before the extension.

Interesting note 2: when I duplicate a file in the Dropbox web interface, it has the same string format (with “ (#)”).

Interesting note 3: The applet is supposed to only run when the first person arrives, but it runs when each of us arrives home separately whereas the companion applet only runs once (when the last person leaves - as it’s supposed to).

2. Attempt: Changed the directory the file is supposed to be created in.

Result: same as above (#1)

3. Attempt: Edited the connection for both life360 and Dropbox on IFTTT.

Result: same as above (#1)

4. Attempt: created a separate applet that has the same trigger (life360 first person arrives home).

Result: It ran twice in the first 2 days when my wife got home and ever since has run reliably when I have arrived home. I usually arrive home first, so this seems normal. What’s not normal is that each time I arrive home, the applet is triggered twice. I get 2 notifications at the same time. I have received an email for each trigger event.

5. Attempt: created a separate applet that has the same action (create a text file in the same Dropbox folder) but a different trigger (regular lkfe360 location service)

Result: the applet will not trigger. The first time I edited the applet, the location appeared to have not saved, as it was a random location in CA (I’m in NJ). The second time I edited the applet, the location was correct when the page loaded and it changed a couple seconds later while i was looking at it to about 1.3 miles up the road to the north). Since then, the location has been correct, but it still has never triggered despite me coming and going numerous times.

Interesting note: I have another applet that uses the same trigger and same location, and it works reliably!?

So while typing this up, I cand up with a new hypothesis of what might possibly be happening. I think that something is wrong with the Life360 trigger. I’ll be each tI’ve I arrive home, it is causing 2 triggering events and when that happens, as was suggested with another of my Dropbox applets, there becomes a contention issue with creating the file... However that doesn’t explain why the first file gets created every time....