Comments on: WeMo Introduction and Teardown https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/11/13/wemo-introduction-and-teardown/ All about electronics and circuit design Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:29:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/11/13/wemo-introduction-and-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1601450 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:50:48 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=35601#comment-1601450 Teardown: Smart plug adds energy consumption monitoring
https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4461035/Teardown–Smart-plug-adds-energy-consumption-monitoring

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/11/13/wemo-introduction-and-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1597789 Sun, 22 Jul 2018 15:52:47 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=35601#comment-1597789 Belkin WeMo Insight Teardown
https://hackaday.io/project/5093-belkin-wemo-insight-teardown

Watch as I take apart a Belkin WeMo Insight smart outlet.

I like the idea of an internet-connected outlet that can *also* monitor power usage. Of course, rather than actually using it, I immediately took it apart. So, I figured I’d take some pictures and share them here.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/11/13/wemo-introduction-and-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1452512 Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:39:01 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=35601#comment-1452512 We’ve hacked around the WeMo a few times including how to make fake WeMo devices and how to hack into one using the UART. We even found a tutorial on putting OpenWRT on the things.

http://hackaday.com/2015/07/16/how-to-make-amazon-echo-control-fake-wemo-devices/
http://hackaday.com/2014/08/09/defcon-22-hack-all-the-things/#more-128722

OpenWRT for WEMO
http://sheldor.blogspot.de/2014/01/openwrt-for-wemo-part-1-compiling.html

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/11/13/wemo-introduction-and-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1452510 Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:38:09 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=35601#comment-1452510 Belkin WeMo Teardown
http://hackaday.com/2015/11/17/belkin-wemo-teardown/

As you might expect from a cheap piece of consumer hardware, there’s not a whole lot inside. The digital board contains a Ralink WiFi chip, an antenna etched on the PCB, and a handful of components, including an SDRAM and some flash memory.

A second board has the AC interface which uses a good old fashioned relay to switch the live wire of the AC outlet to the load. The neutral and ground wires simply pass through.

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