Perl – IFTTT Home Automation

What's that? There's a gathering storm, and suddenly, as if by magic, the outside shutters on the house are pulled in? Oh, this must be home automation at work! Unfortunately, it's not that easy to integrate individual components in a smart home into a coherent overall system; many manufacturers like to do their own thing and deliberately don't play well with gadgets manufactured by the competition.

WeMo

I recently bought the WeMo Switch [1] on a whim (Figure 1). It can be used to switch electrical devices on and off, both mechanically and by using the mobile phone app either via local WiFi or over the Internet.

Figure 1: The WeMo Switch powers electrical devices on and off using the WeMo app.

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