{"id":279,"date":"2016-10-27T07:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-10-27T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T06:36:34","slug":"home-automation-at-a-bargain-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Home Automation at a bargain price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ad560dac-3c75-42c9-8236-5dcebb79296d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/ad560dac-3c75-42c9-8236-5dcebb79296d-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ad560dac-3c75-42c9-8236-5dcebb79296d\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I discovered these little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bargain-World-ORVIBO-WiWo-S20-Control\/dp\/B01J40TLRE\/tag=simkin-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Orvibo S20&#8221; sockets<\/a> that let you turn sockets on and off using your iphone. Very neat.<br \/>\nYou can also do this over the Internet. But I&#8217;m not entirely convinced that the third-party proxy is secure enough for my level of internet security paranoia. I mean, I am sure it is fine but I only paid them a one-off fee under \u00a320, so their motivation to run a highly secure proxy is going to eventually wane a little. So I need another solution.<br \/>\nFire-up a Raspberry PI and have a play with this <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fernadosilva\/orvfms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">project on Github<\/a>. You&#8217;ll soon have a webpage on your PI that lets you turn sockets on and off. Now it is in your control, putting it behind a VPN tunnel or SSH session is a possibility.<br \/>\nNow go look at what the more expensive proprietary home automation systems cost and decide if \u00a320 and a few hours of your time makes sense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered these little &#8220;Orvibo S20&#8221; sockets that let you turn sockets on and off using your iphone. Very neat. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=279\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[319,316,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}