Hi folks, I need to measure power consumption of some of my devices at home. And since I had somewhere an unused brand new Belkin Wemo Insight F7c029 plug lying around, I tried to install it. What a hell... Took me 2 hours, and - after resetting the factory defaults about 12 times - it was final…

When I inject a message into the Insight node, a request will be send to the device ONLY to get the binary state of the switch: [image] Based on this article, I had hoped to be able to get the power consumption by changing the action via the Chrome debugger: [image] But then then the response co…

Had forgotton to change other things in the request: [image] And this: [image] But then I still get an Invalid Action response ...

Rule number one with these kind of plugs; Get rid of the original firmware and flash them with Tasmota . Unfortunately this Belkin plug isn't Tasmota compatible . For €10 you can buy on Ali a measuring plug plug with Tasmota pre installed. It's not worth the effort to debug wemos.js, however the la…

[image] edje11: For €10 you can buy on Ali a measuring plug plug with Tasmota pre installed. Hi Evert, that is interesting. Would appreciate to have some more info about that. But could you please share your info (experiences, links, ...) about those plugs in a new discussion (category "ha…

[image] BartButenaers: Now I will have to test this on my other Wemo switch, which hasn't got a power meter inside. Just to make sure that I don't break existing flows. Damn this node works great. The Belkin app is totally not aware of my second switch, but the wemo node immediately found it…

[image] BartButenaers: So I think it is better to map those latter devices to type "socket_insight" . Quickly implemented this during my lunch break at home ... At startup the node now detects the correct switch type (insight or classic), and - based on that type - it will only request after…

Looks good from a really quick look. It would be good to look at the input node output and seeing if we can make them match up in a backward compatible way. This might mean leaving msg.payload.state as the full string and moving the broken out details to under a different key.

Hi @hardillb , nice that you join this discussion! I have implemented your change. Did I understand it correctly? The output msg of the Input-node now looks like this: For a classic Wemo Switch: [image] For a classic Wemo Insight switch: [image] I know that backwards compatibility is ve…

There is no need to duplicate any fields, you don't even need the insightParams sub object. Everything can live at the msg.payload level. Just make sure that the field names and units match when there is overlap.

Measure the power consumption via a Wemo Insight switch

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BartButenaers 17 January 2021 23:17 4

My time is up for today. But if I'm not mistaken, this (older) proposal from @jenavarro might have been a solution, if it would have been implemented?

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Measure the power consumption via a Wemo Insight switch

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