Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Smart Homes - WEMO Belkin automation

I started on a smart home project today, with the purchase of a WEMO power outlet
If you are setting up one of these devices follow the instructions very carefully, don't just plug it in and hope it will connect. The manual is not very detailed. The set up principle for setting up is as follows;
  • Power device in a good wifi area of your home and wait for the lights to settle, go make a coffe or bake a cake
  • Use smart phone to connect to WEMO device like you did for your WIFI router
  • Run the WEMO application it should go through various setup procedures again wait then wait again
 If the setup fails you can try resetting the devicein my experience the WEMO device seemed to remember the WIFI router even after resetting and I needed to rename the router as a last resort.

I am using the WEMO power outlet to add a entry into a calendar when the electric jug is boiled 

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