Comments on: Control your TP-Link HS100 smart plug with IFTTT

By: Jon Homer

Jon Homer — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:42:00 +0000

Home assistant doesn’t support tp-link as far as I can see

By: MJKienzle

MJKienzle — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:40:00 +0000

Use the maker channel through HomeAssistant? Works great.

By: Alexandre Dumont

Alexandre Dumont — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 07:23:00 +0000

That’s a totally different approach, this post is about controlling the plug using the cloud service API.

By: stefien

stefien — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:09:00 +0000

In the case above, he wasn’t testing in IFTTT, but in jsonlint which appears to have different formatting rules than IFTTT. With IFTTT, you had to have the curly braces on different lines, with jsonlint, you had to bring them together. Different online sites with different ways of interpreting the input. In reality, either one, technically, should be fine. But you work with what you have. 🙂

If he’s going to be testing his code on jsonlint, he’s going to need to adjust his curly brace location there, but then re-adjust once he brings it over to IFTTT

By: Alexandre Dumont

Alexandre Dumont — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:02:00 +0000

IFTTT is definitely susceptible to the payload format. How I formatted it, it worked, at least when I took the screen shot you can see in the post. Follow my formatting in case of doubts.

By: stefien

stefien — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:58:00 +0000

Hoping either the OP or someone else with more JSON knowledge than me can assist. Got this working smoothly (thanks to the OP as well as some of the tips I saw in the comments. Thank you everyone!)

I’m attempting to tie this into my alarm system so that when my alarm is triggered, IFTTT will flash the lights. As it works now, it will turn the lights ON, but I’m unable to figure out how to string multiple commands, so the connection sends a state ON/state OFF/state ON/state OFF etc.

Any thoughts?

By: stefien

stefien — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 19:40:00 +0000

I had the same issue. The problem ended up being the rows the braces were on. It had to be formatted as below for it to work.

{
“method”: “passthrough”,
“params”: {
“deviceId”: “800676FD5F0A287A6137E090F5DD916D183CXXXX”,
“requestData”: “{“system”:{“set_relay_state”:{“state”:1}}}”
}
}

By: Adam Parsons

Adam Parsons — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:44:00 +0000

Can anyone advise on adding multiple device ids so I can turn on more than one at a time?

By: Patrick Griffith

Patrick Griffith — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:25:00 +0000

@adumont:disqus thank you so much for the reply. That did it! I saw someones comment about making sure the json was without spaces, but I didn’t think the line breaks would make a difference. Much appreciated.

By: Alexandre Dumont

Alexandre Dumont — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 06:15:00 +0000

I believe that’s because IFTTT notation for ingredients (variables) is like this {{name}}. In your caer IFTTT understands your }} as the end of an ingredient name, and is missing the opening. My advice try to separate every } with a new line to avoid confusion.