FlaskLight

A quick and dirty Flask app to control a TP-Link Kasa smart bulb from a web interface

Q&A

• Can I see a screenshot? Yes.
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• Doesn't KASA already have a mobile app and cloud site to do this with?
  • Yes, but that's no fun and I wouldn't get to play with Flask This allows me to access it from any device without installing anything
• Does it really need to be green text on a black background like a bad hacker movie?
  • Yes
• How do I use this dang thing?
  • Connect the KASA bulb to your wifi using their pesky mobile app
  • Change the bulb = SmartBulb("192.168.1.253") in app.py to the IP of your bulb
  • Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  • Run ./run.sh
  • Connect to localhost:8080
  • ???
  • Profit
• How do I find the IP of my bulb?
  • Run pyhs100 with no arguments in a shell after installing the requirements with pip
• Help, I can't access the interface!
  • By default Flask runs the dev server bound to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) only, if you're running the app on a different machine locally, you'll need to run FLASK_APP=app.py flask run -h 0.0.0.0 to bind to all IPs
• Did you make all of these questions up yourself?
  • Yes