Would be nice if this information was more visible.
I was quite surprised that the link leads to some random G+ page about "smartplug" hacking while people here are talking as if it was a commercial product.
Thanks! My work requires using a certain device which I figured how to use remotely but occasionally it needs a reboot and the devices I found were very expensive.
I can't imagine what they have a patent pending on. They could claim nobody has put all of these features into a single device, but I'd challenge even that. WiFi switches have been around for a long time and there's a myriad of open projects for a variety of "development platforms" (RPi, Arduino, etc) that do things like this or similar to this. As far as detecting and cycling a device based on network activity, I've personally built something that performs this exact function ten years ago using an old laptop with an X10 serial device and a router/modem plugged into an X10 device. There's got to be a ton of prior art out there.
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This is just the American version of the Kankun wireless plug with a script on it. The Kankun plug is like 1/4 of the price: http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32613551938.html
There's a whole community about hacking these plugs: https://plus.google.com/communities/115308608951565782559
Thanks! We changed the URL to that second link, which seems like it might be the most substantive. The originally posted URL was http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BU2ALGO/.
Would be nice if this information was more visible.
I was quite surprised that the link leads to some random G+ page about "smartplug" hacking while people here are talking as if it was a commercial product.
Here's a non-mobile version of that same link:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2015-New-Smart-Wifi-plug-sock...
Thanks! My work requires using a certain device which I figured how to use remotely but occasionally it needs a reboot and the devices I found were very expensive.
Someone needs to oppose the pending patent then.
I can't imagine what they have a patent pending on. They could claim nobody has put all of these features into a single device, but I'd challenge even that. WiFi switches have been around for a long time and there's a myriad of open projects for a variety of "development platforms" (RPi, Arduino, etc) that do things like this or similar to this. As far as detecting and cycling a device based on network activity, I've personally built something that performs this exact function ten years ago using an old laptop with an X10 serial device and a router/modem plugged into an X10 device. There's got to be a ton of prior art out there.