https://rakhama.com/tags/iot/Recent content in Iot on Garcia's Guide to the GalaxyHugoenSun, 26 Jul 2026 15:00:12 +1000https://rakhama.com/posts/gee-wiz-turn-off-yr-vpn/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:00:12 +1000https://rakhama.com/posts/gee-wiz-turn-off-yr-vpn/<img src="https://rakhama.com/posts/gee-wiz-turn-off-yr-vpn/WizNoTailScale_hu_277ab159e4da67cf.jpg" /><p>I picked up a <a href="https://www.wizconnected.com/en-au/p/accessory-smart-plug/8719514553002">Wiz Smart Plug</a> and for the life of me I couldn&rsquo;t get it to connect to the WiFi using the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wizconnected.wiz2">Wiz Connected app</a>. I&rsquo;d already connected the plug to the <a href="https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us/p/accessory-smart-button/046677604387">Portable Button</a>, so Smart Pairing was out, I had to pair manually. No problem, I thinks. Yet the app would get stuck on the step <em>Sending credentials&hellip;</em> under the <em>Connecting to the Cloud</em> header. None of my Google-fu (<a href="https://duckduckgo.com">Duck-Duck-Go</a>-fu?) surfaced any working solutions, which I eventually realised was to turn off the <a href="https://tailscale.com">Tailscale</a> VPN I had active on my phone. D&rsquo;oh!</p><p><a href="https://rakhama.com/posts/gee-wiz-turn-off-yr-vpn/">Continue reading &raquo;</a></p>