Controlling "off the shelf" Smart sockets

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I’m still new to to the MQTT aspects of Cayenne (and programming generally) so bare with me!

I found this set up guide for controlling a commercial wifi smart socket without using the vendor specific phone app. I’d like to understand how to use Cayenne to be doing this - so I can use a cayenne trigger to turn on and off the smart socket. In that the socket is tied to the vendor cloud - I’d clearly have to use the trigger in Cayenne to send a message to the vendor cloud (who then sends the message t the socket).

Am I thinking on the right lines? Is this where trigger / webhook comes in? While I searched for similar projects I may not have used the best keywords and was unable to find anything - has anyone done anything similar.

Many thanks in anticipation.

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i guess this is possible, on how to use webhook follow this tutorial for IF part Webhook And IFTTT and for THAT you have to select Kasa service.

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Thank you so much! I’ll have a read.

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Thanks - this works very well - I have created a trigger based on a sensor activation sending a webhook to IFTTT which in turn sends a message to my Kasa smart plug to turn on.

One slight issue is that I get repeated messages from IFTTT that the applet has been run - so suspect the webhook trigger is flooding as per the known issue with email/sms. Any way to stop this do you know?

Thanks again.

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this issue needs to be solved in your Arduino code. have a look at this workaround Sending a lot of SMS alert and email