PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026

Some web-based home automation systems have APIs - some are locked down to Android or iPhone apps, and have interesting restrictions that you may not agree with. You may even prefer to interact with them entirely without cloud-based phone-home systems being used.I'll be covering an example of opening some windows using PowerShell (from anywhere I want) - instead of the extremely restricted phone app I'd otherwise have to use.If you've ever been curious about truly owning a system that's perhaps not easy to access from whatever you choose to access it with, you might enjoy this talk.We'll cover analysing how many app-based systems interact with their cloud interface, how to use that information to automate your usage with PowerShell (or any other language you might prefer), and how to break open and use any existing data in an Android app in order to use a very unsupported API.We'll work through the stages you may need to try in order to gain access to just about anything - and laugh at my failures on the way.This is about writing Windows PowerShell... or something a bit like that.