Network-controlled power switches/relays?

[Tom Buskey]

>From what I've seen Web Power Switch is reasonably secure.  It's worth
getting.

I have some wifi adapters from TP-Link that have an Android App, Kasa.
That's not secure IMO.  I don't think they're worth getting even at home
for that reason.  The only good thing is that someone hacked a script to
control them w/o their cloud.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

> The one they're holding in the video, the Web Power Switch Pro
> <https://dlidirect.com/collections/frontpage/products/new-pro-switch>, looks
> like the one I had in a lab with WiFi added.  Price is similar.  I'd get
> one again if I needed it.
>
> I have some of those android app wifi ones from tp-link at home.  The app
> is Kasa and someone had a linux script to control it.  It's not secure.  I
> might use it seasonally, but I'm not sure I'd want to put my servers on it.
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Gerry Hull <gerry at telosity.com> wrote:
>
>> Use these all over the world.  Have three in the arctic.  Work great,
>> inexpensive!  Network ping restart.
>>
>> https://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <
>> rozzin at hackerposse.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone have any experience with ethernet-controlled power relays?
>>>
>>> I have a situation with a couple of embedded Linux appliances I'm
>>> working on,
>>> that are deployed hundreds of miles away from me, and I need the ability
>>> to power-cycle one of them remotely. Looking for some sort of
>>> remote-controlled
>>> AC outlet or relay (relay could be an 120V AC relay or a 12VDC relay,
>>> actually...).
>>>
>>> Need one that I can control from a shell login on the other Linux machine
>>> at the site, e.g.: a socket interface I can drive with netcat or the
>>> like,
>>> a web interface that works with w3m or curl, SNMP.... Any of those would
>>> be fine.
>>>
>>> I see a lot of different devices on Amazon that look like they might
>>> require
>>> an iPhone or Android device running some proprietary GUI app on the LAN,
>>> but I'm having trouble telling which are worthwhile and which will be a
>>> waste of time.
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
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