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Emulate a WeMo device with ESP8266

My daughters love to talk to (or with) my Amazon Dot in their funny English: “Alexa, hello!, Alexa, li-on!” (actually ‘light on’). It ‘s so easy to use it to switch on/off things at home using the fauxmo python script by Maker Musings. In his post about Amazon Echo and Home Automation more than a year ago he explains how he reverse-engineered the protocol of the WeMo switches that Alexa supports. I also have a server running the fauxmo script with an MQTT handler to control some of the Sonoffs I have at home, but this morning I woke up thinking: why should I use an external script to control my devices if I can code it in the firmware?”

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