Soon after having found out how to trigger one TP-Link HS100 smartplug , the most frequently asked question in the comments has been ¿how can I power On/Off multiple devices from ITFFF? Probably the second to most request in the mind of all is related to the TOKEN that will eventually expired sooner of later, making it a hassle to edit all your IFTTT applets manually… Until now! Read and Follow me!
We’ve seen in a previous post what is the protocol to authenticate to TP Link cloud API. Now, what about doing that from Tasker you can ask me? Well, that’s very simple actually! To implement that in Tasker I have used RESTask for Tasker (because I had troubles having the native HTTP Post…
This is breaking news! No need to hack into your phone’s backups any more to obtain the TP-Link token! First you need to generate an UUID v4. You can open https://www.uuidgenerator.net/version4 and pick the one they give you there (no need to create one every time, one is fine, just…
Thanks to a comment by Jacob K. on a previous post, I looked into how to set/unset the HS100 plug timer via the TP-Link API call. To replay the steps below, be sure to already have: your TP-Link token your HS100 deviceId your TP-Link app server URL In the next…
If you have followed my series on how to control the TP-Link HS100 smart plug by communicating with TP-Link Cloud services, you might have seen that there are some common issues related to the URL one need to point the requests to. I’ve found out a way to know what…
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…
We’ve seen in a previous post how to switch our TP-Link HS100 smartplug from command line, from anywhere (not only the local network). In this post we’ll see how to create some Tasker tasks to control our smartplug. From that, we can imagine any useful/crazy profiles triggered from any events, time,…
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.