With a lot of help from Viktor I tinkered with an Eco Plug that I got from Home Depot for $7.50ish. I can turn it off and on using voice commands on Alexa. This has an esp8266 wireless board in it that we loaded with some code to make it look like a WeMo to Alexa.
The wires were soldered on temporarily so I could connect a USB FTDI from my PC. There wasn’t enough room inside the plug to leave the wires on so I ended up removing them.
Arduino IDE was used to upload to the esp8266. A tutorial for how to work with this is here.
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