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  • protocol for wifi smart switches and outlets?

    From Joe Pfeiffer@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 19 09:36:56 2018
    While I've been waiting to see whether Zigbee or Zwave was going to be
    the future of home automation, wifi-enabled outlets and switches have
    quietly been getting popular. But... I haven't been able to find any information about just what protocol they use. So... does anyone know?

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  • From Pat@21:1/5 to pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu on Wed Dec 19 13:41:38 2018
    On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:36:56 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer
    <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:

    While I've been waiting to see whether Zigbee or Zwave was going to be
    the future of home automation, wifi-enabled outlets and switches have
    quietly been getting popular. But... I haven't been able to find any >information about just what protocol they use. So... does anyone know?

    TCP/IP, HTTP, XML, and SOAP

    My Wemos seem much more complex than necessary. An on command to a
    switch is a big long string of XML looking stuff that has an ASCII 1
    in the middle. The off command uses the identical big long string but
    with a zero instead of the 1.

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  • From Joe Pfeiffer@21:1/5 to Pat on Wed Dec 19 15:00:26 2018
    Pat <forums@greensdomain.com> writes:

    On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:36:56 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer
    <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:

    While I've been waiting to see whether Zigbee or Zwave was going to be
    the future of home automation, wifi-enabled outlets and switches have >>quietly been getting popular. But... I haven't been able to find any >>information about just what protocol they use. So... does anyone know?

    TCP/IP, HTTP, XML, and SOAP

    My Wemos seem much more complex than necessary. An on command to a
    switch is a big long string of XML looking stuff that has an ASCII 1
    in the middle. The off command uses the identical big long string but
    with a zero instead of the 1.

    Anything standard built on top of the last three, or is it ad hoc from
    there?

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