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…
How to authenticate to TP-Link cloud API
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…
Control your TP-Link HS100 smart plug from your Android Watch!
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…
Control your TP-Link HS100 smartplug with Tasker
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,…
Script to open URLs and take screenshots
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.
How to run Android Java code from Tasker
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…