The invention relates to a method for connecting an operating state (21) of a motor vehicle (2) to a respective operating state (28) of at least one vehicle-external device (4), wherein in a
server device (3) the motor vehicle (2) makes available
event data (24) via an event channel (22) and / or receives triggering data (25) via a triggering channel (23), and the at least one vehicle-external device (4) respectively makes available
event data (29) via an event channel (26) and / or receives triggering data (30) via a triggering channel (27), wherein as a result in total at least one channel pair(32, 33) which connects the motor vehicle (2) to in each case one of the at least one device (4) is made available, and at least one linking rule (31) is defined by an
input device (3), wherein each linking rule (31) specifies respectively predetermined triggering data (25, 30) for a channel pair (32, 33) which is made available, said triggering data (25, 30) being output via the triggering channel (23, 27) of the channel pair (32, 33) if predetermined
event data (24, 29) is received via the event channel (22, 26) of the channel pair (32, 33).