At last! I can turn on the light without my phone

It’s still quite a stunner than Belkin doesn’t offer a desktop app for controlling their devices. When I go downstairs to the basement family room, I’ve either got to carry my phone with me (which I don’t normally do because Verizon is useless in my basement) or I’ve got to fumble around in the dark to find my WeMo switch to turn it on.

WSwitch fills the gap nicely, doing exactly what it says. It searches your local network for any WeMo devices and makes them available for simple on-off control.

What it doesn’t do (and doesn’t claim to do): It doesn’t control your WeMos while you’re away from home (although it would probably work if you had a home VPN you could tunnel into). It doesn’t let you access and adjust your WeMo schedules. I don’t think it lets you set up a new WeMo. But it doesn’t actually claim to do any of those things.

At $4.99 it seems a little steep for what it does, but I’ve probably already spent more than $4.99 worth of my own time trying to find a way to control my WeMo devices from my Mac. So, in the end it’s worth it.

Da Newsdude about Switch for WeMo, v1.4.1