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Comment on Garmin nuvi 660 Bluetooth Fix by Rich

Rich — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 19:44:34 +0000

Hi Jim,

Thanks for pointing this out. I still have the file and adjusted the link.

-Rich H.

Comment on Garmin nuvi 660 Bluetooth Fix by Jimmy L Cheatheam

Jimmy L Cheatheam — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:51:33 +0000

the link to the Zip file says “404 – File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”
cauld you provide it again.
Thanks, Jim

Comment on Cheap LCD Humidity/Hygrometer and Thermometer Mod’d To Show Fahrenheit by Alan Kirk

Alan Kirk — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 23:24:27 +0000

Thanks for the easy solution.

Comment on We didn’t start the fire: Add MOSFET’s to your 3D printer by Doug B

Doug B — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:18:49 +0000

By the way, I concur with your evaluation of the Hakko FX888D. Once you use one, you will not want to ever use any other soldering iron!

Comment on We didn’t start the fire: Add MOSFET’s to your 3D printer by Rich

Rich — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:06:27 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. Glad to hear this is still helping keep people safe.

Comment on We didn’t start the fire: Add MOSFET’s to your 3D printer by Doug B

Doug B — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:03:13 +0000

Finally got a schematic diagram that is easy to understand. This helps so much. The youtube “how tos” on this help some but this diagram makes it real clear. Thanks!

Comment on Shell Script To Control Belkin WeMo’s by dedelajoie

dedelajoie — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:02:56 +0000

I found a simple -though ugly- way to get power consumption over a wemo insight switch

this is a simple modification of rich’s script

just add before the “else” something like :
elif [ "$2" = "GETPOWER" ]

then

res=`curl -0 -A ” -X POST -H ‘Accept: ‘ -H ‘Content-type: text/xml; charset=”utf-8″‘ -H “SOAPACTION: \”urn:Belkin:service:insight:1#GetInsightParams\”" –data ‘ ‘ -s http://$IP:$PORT/upnp/control/insight1 | grep “” | cut -d”>” -f2|cut -d”|” -f9`
Power=$(($res/60000))
echo $Power

I wanted to get the GetPower Property which is mentionned here and there but I never managed to get it working.

I found an alternate solution which is to get the InsightParams from the wemo insight API. the result is a string which looks like that : 1|1544988731|3|38049|456580|1209600|361|1430400|657939175|7107245804.000000|8000

I was able to identify the meaning of some -not all- fields

field 1 : 1 is the position of the switch (1-ON |0-OFF)

field 2 : 1544988731 is the date in secondes since 1970/01/01

field 3 : unknown

field 4 : 38049 Today’s activity in sec

field 5 : 456580 Total activity in sec

field 6 : 1209600 unknown

field 7 : 361 unknown

field 8 : unknown

field 9 : 657939175 Energy Today that’s our consumption ! (on mwh -> to be divided by 60000 to get the Energy Today

field 10 : 7107245804 Total Engery (since when? )

field 11 : unknown

then the only thing to do is to get the InsightParam, get the field n# 9 and divide it by 60000

I’d like to say thank you to rich for his brillant inspiration.

Comment on Shell Script To Control Belkin WeMo’s by Soynerdito

Soynerdito — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:54:45 +0000

This script worked very well on my esp8266 emulating a wemo device. Had to change the port to the actual port I am using. Apart of that, well done my friend. Great post and thread comments.
And the c# implementation, have to look into it. need a few mods for my liking, but thanks also it is a great start.

Comment on Shell Script To Control Belkin WeMo’s by Lehi

Lehi — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:46:34 +0000

It is 11/21/2018 and this script is working great for me, thank you for it!

Comment on Shell Script To Control Belkin WeMo’s by Shed Denizen

Shed Denizen — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:11:50 +0000

Ancient tech now, but FWIW, here’s yet more bash to make a WeMo to MQTT bridge: https://shedlabsblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/wemo-smart-plug-to-mqtt/