Question: WeMo Smart LED Bulbs

[tvixen]

Hi
Thanks for a great piece of code...total cool, im using it everyday.

One question, do you plan to implement the WeMo Smart LED Bulbs ?
So it will be possible to dim the bulb, or set anything else to a certain value...volume, or channel up/down ?

Thanks in advance.

[kakopappa]

Thanks.

I have not looked at WeMo Smart LED Bulbs yet mainly, because they are expensive (at least for me). I assume they work some what similar. Try sniffing on HTTP traffic from Alexa to bulb and see.

I have different setup at home .. a cheap one. I brought milights from AliExpress about 10$ each. Then brought the remote controller about 7$ and used my raspberry pi + rf controller to emulate the remote. then used fauxmo (https://github.com/makermusings/fauxmo) to trun on/off using alexa. I have been using this setup for about 3 months now, didn't burn down my house yet.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-mi-light/

[tvixen]

Ok, sounds great with your setup. Always funny to make new things.
I read that Alexa do not support Wemo Light Bulb, so I think I will look at something else to copy a up/down function from.

I need a function to control some of these up/down things I have among the on/off things :)

/* Declare Samsung TV callbacks (on-off) */
void SamsungTVOn(); //Samsung TV toggle ON/OFF
void SamsungTVOff(); //Samsung TV toggle ON/OFF
void SamsungMuteOn(); //Samsung TV Mute
void SamsungChannelUp(); //Samsung TV Channal up
void SamsungChannelDown(); //Samsung TV Channal Down
void SamsungVolumeUp(); //Samsung TV Volume up
void SamsungVolumeDown(); //Samsung TV Volume down
void SamsungCH1On(); //Samsung TV Ch 1
void SamsungCH2On(); //Samsung TV Ch 2
void SamsungCH3On(); //Samsung TV Ch 3

/* Declare Marantz callbacks (on-off) */
void AmplifierOn(); //Amplifier ON
void AmplifierOff(); //Amplifier OFF
void AmplifierVolumeUp(); //Amplifier volume up
void AmplifierVolumeDown(); //Amplifier volume down
void AmplifierAuxOn(); //Amplifier Aux input
void AmplifierTunerOn(); //Amplifier Tuner input
void AmplifierTvOn(); //Amplifier TV input
void AmplifierDVDOn(); //Amplifier DVD input
void AmplifierScourceUp(); //Amplifier Source up
void AmplifierScourceDown(); //Amplifier Source down
void AmplifierMuteOn(); //Amplifier Mute toggle
void AmplifierMuteOff(); //Amplifier Mute toggle

/* Declare Mile callbacks (on-off) */
void VacuumCleanerOn(); //Vaccum Cleaner toggle ON
void VacuumCleanerCornerOn(); //Corners ON
void VacuumCleanerGoOn(); //Go Go Go
void VacuumCleanerBaseOn(); //Return to home

As you can see, I need use a couples of up/down functions to control volume aso. So if you have any great ideas, I would gladly hear them.

[tvixen]

This seems to be a winner
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/03/wemo-dimmer-switch-and-mini/

[tvixen]

Btw do you have issue with the discovery numbers. Sometimes Alexa will only discover 4 switches, even if theres 8 ? And I have to discover 3-4 times.