Control a TP Link HS100 smartplug with Tasker

[Alexandre Dumont]

Just wanted to share a tutorial I made about controlling a TP Link HS100 smartplug with Tasker:

http://itnerd.space/2017/02/26/control-your-tp-link-hs100-smartplug-with-tasker/

[hollywoodfrodo]

Cool - thanks for sharing this!

[Hugson]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 18:01:08 UTC+11, Alexandre Dumont wrote:

Just wanted to share a tutorial I made about controlling  a TP Link HS100 smartplug with Tasker:

http://itnerd.space/2017/02/26/control-your-tp-link-hs100-smartplug-with-tasker/

I bought 2 HS100 smartplugs yesterday. I then used Google to find out how to control these devices using Tasker. My initial attempts involved finding the Token Id and using that to control the devices. Unfortunately this didn't work well because, nowadays, it seems the token changes all the time.

Then I came across your approach using Send/Expect (which I was totally unfamiliar with). My 1st attempt using your approach failed - it did nothing. Then I corrected the IP address I had put in (I mis-remembered the last digit as a 5 instead of a 3 <g>!). And lo and behold, everything worked perfectly. Then I learnt how to assign a fixed IP address to the smartplug, and I'm very happy indeed.

I thank you for your generosity - people like you make the Internet so much better a place. I wonder how long it took you to work out your solution?

[Alexandre Dumont]

Thanks for your kind words. I like to share what I find, it's not always very poslished, but I like to think it can help other start new stuff, and create new ways of doing stuff.

I really can't remember how much time I spent figuring how to do that. 

I have just created a gist with the xml for 4 Tasker tasks I believe I have never published (or maybe I did and I forgot I did), it's the 4 tasks I use to control my HS100. One is for login, two will power on/off the hs100, and the 4rth will retrieve the state of the switch.

I uses some variables: 

• TPLUSER (your Kasa username)
• TPLPASS (your Kasa password),
• TPLTERM (simply generate any valid uuidv4 and it should work). https://www.uuidgenerator.net/version4

You'll also have to replace YOUR_HS100_DEVICEID_HERE with your own deviceId. (it's in two places).

Here's the Gist: https://gist.github.com/adumont/0118b83f7993eacc04f5fd0ff55df8e8

Cheers,
Alex

[Paul Thornett]

Thanks for your email and for the Tasker file you sent me.

I'm wondering how you created the file named TPLink-HS100-Taskers.xml, as I cannot import it into the current version of Tasker. I suspect the format of exported tasks may have changed.

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   Paul Thornett

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[Alexandre Dumont]

Try with this one that I have attached. Put the 4 xlm (that are in teh zip)  on your phone in /Tasker/tasks/ :

How to Import Profiles, Tasks, Scenes & Vars (e.g: import a friend's profile/task or one you have found on the internet)

• Open Tasker
• If you want to import a profile, go in the Profiles page
• Tap on the Profiles tab
• Select Import
• select your <profile_name>.xml file
• Done

Tasks, Scenes and Vars are imported the same way  

Hope that works for you.

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[Paul Thornett]

Your latest file has worked. It's late now (I'm in Australia) and I cannot remember how to obtain the device id for my HS100 - I'll resume tomorrow.

Many thanks for your help - it's very much appreciated.

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   Paul Thornett

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[Endre Baginyi-Korcsák]

Hi Alex,

A bit off-topic. Just checked TP Link product page and saw the HS110 has watt meter capabilities.

Do you have any info what data is available for query?

[Duckredbeard]

Can this be adapted to control Sonoff Basic or 4 Channel Pro switches?