Wemo also works with ifttt connecting your home electronics to a whole world of online apps. Thats easy enough to do using a client that can send xml and some headers but i wanted to learn a little more about it and hopefully at the end of this investigation i would have a utility that i could use with cron to turn my outlet on and off.
Wemo Bridge Works With Apple Homekit
Control wemo from web browser. It turns out the wemo is a upnp device and has a soap api that can be used to control it. Wemo is a growing family of innovative easy to use products that use mobile internet to control your home electronics power water and wifi right from your smartphone or tablet. Select toggle a wemo switch or if you have the insight switch tap on toggle insight switch onoff. Type in wemo and it will bring up a list of options you can choose from. Use tasker to open this link you will need to replace the ip address with whatever the ip of your wemo switch is. Tap on the search icon in the top right corner of the screen.
Tap on the icon. Discover wemos new vision and learn how wemo can make life simpler smarter and whole lot more magical. Essentially the wemo switches work off xml not too difficult to work out the contents of the envelope that needs to be sent you can do this even using just a url. Skip to main content. Enter your account username and password in the sign in fields then click login.