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…
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,…
Say you need to open a lot of URLs to see what they look like. Not in the mood for any more manual work, you prefer to automate the task? Let see how we can read a bunch of URL from an Excel file, load them in MSIE and take a screenshot of each of them. You’ll have more time to analyse the results.
When it comes to Automation in Android, there is no doubt that Tasker is the absolute king. Although I admit the UI is not fancy — at all, and the learning curve is quite harsh, Tasker has demonstrated being the most powerful app in the Automation space. One of the little know features…