Comments 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.

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.

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!

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/

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 20:09:50 +0000

Does anyone knows what is the request to get the power consumption of a wimo insight ?
thanks

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:44:28 +0000

I am able to connect to the Wemo and get the state, signal strength, and name. Does anyone know how I would go about getting the Power usage in watts? I would love to be able to request from the Wemo how much energy is currently being used at this moment.

Thank you.

By: Song

Song — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 08:53:52 +0000

I haven’t yet bought a WEMO insight.

I was planning on buying one and using “wemo_control.sh” to control it and measure power consumption watt-hour through it. If it works, I would like to try designing a smartphone app for it.

So my question is… Would a standard WEMO insight off the shelf work fine with this shell? If not, Is there a particular model number that this shell works on?

Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:12:05 +0000

Thanks for this! I’m using it with ha-bridge, now I can control my mix of hue, wemo, and x10 lights with Hue apps.

By: Wayne Manion

Wayne Manion — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:15:22 +0000

This works perfectly with my WeMo Insight.

By: ex

ex — Mon, 23 May 2016 22:14:02 +0000

Just got a WeMo Switch Insight today, this still seem to work for that model. (Assume it’s a newer version/hav had some firmware updates.)

Using mine as a bandaid solution for a host that randomly dies and need hard reboots now and then.