wemowatch

Activates/deactivates Wemo switches when certain processes are active.

# The Wemo device "Meeting in Progress sign" will turn on whenever a BlueJeans process is detected on the system.
wemowatch --name "Meeting in Progress sign" --processes "BlueJeans"

Install and use

Make sure you have Go installed and then run this to download/install:

go install github.com/scallister/wemowatch

Buy a sign

This is the meeting in progress sign I use: https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-Progress-Pollution-Prohibit-Distract/dp/B01HEDN0CA

Buy a wemo mini plug

This is the wemo plug I use (but any wemo branded switch should work): https://smile.amazon.com/Smart-Enabled-Google-Assistant-HomeKit/dp/B01NBI0A6R/

Cron Job

To keep the script running at all times, I add it to my crontab like so. Wemowatch is designed to automatically exit if there is already a wemowatch process running so it is safe to run this once an hour.

0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/wemowatch --name "Meeting in Progress sign" -p "bluejeans,zoom.us" --log-file="/var/log/wemowatch.log"