In this post I’ll show how I control my TP-Link HS100 smart plug right from my LG G Watch R Android smart watch, from anywhere, which is very handy. The first thing we need is the ability to control the HS100 smart plug from Tasker on our Android phone. If…
In previous posts we’ve seen how to remotely switch On/Off our TP-Link HS100 smart plug, and how to control it with IFTTT. In this post we’ll see how we can remotely obtain the state of the HS100 relay: On or Off, from command line. I even do it with Tasker for…
In my previous post we saw how we can control a TP-Link HS100 smart plug from command line from anywhere on Internet, without having to rely on the Kasa app, which unleashes a new world of possibilities. In this post we’ll see how to switch the plug On/Off directly from IFTTT, without any third-party component, nor without any other device at home other than the smart plug itself.
In this post I’ll show how to control a TP-Link HS100 smart plug from the command line from any device connected to Internet (not only from the local Wifi). This can then be used to expand the possibilities of your smart plug and automate it with apps like Tasker for Android and IFTTT.
Azure App Service scalability: How do they do it? We usually understand well what scalability is, but how is it achieved technically?
Discover how Microsoft is leveraging Ubuntu and Docker to implement their new Azure PaaS offering: “App Service on Linux”.
This is the second post of a series, on Azure App Service Architecture. The first one introduced the concepts of App and Plan, what are the Pricing Tiers and Instance Sizes. This one will give some more details on how I understand the service plan are architected internally.
This is the first post of a series on Azure App Service Architecture. This one introduces the concepts of Apps, and Plans, what are the Pricing Tiers and Instance Sizes. The second post will give some more details on how I understand the service plan are architected. The 3rd post looks at how…
This is about a small personal initiative: I was looking for a solution to backup some Linux servers that I have, at home and in the cloud. Ideally, my requirements were: Backup should be offsite, preferably in the cloud Solution should support some kind of backup policies (full, incremental, and…