Few questions on Tapo P110M smart plug

Hardware
1

I got 2 Tapo p110m devices.

1). Did anyone here manage to find a way to update the firmware on these without moving them back to Tapo app? I do not want to hop around between HA to their software for every single firmware update.

2). Can Matter server pull firmware updates for these?

3). Me being a paranoid, I put both of them behind firewall and am seeing logs of them trying to initiate connection to Amazon Datacenter in Singapore. I thought the Matter devices were supposed to be local?

4). Would i need to allow them to access that server for them to able to pull firmware updates through Matter server?

2

Not familiar with their matter protocol but you can flash with tasmota and ditch the tapo cloud/app entirely

Looks like it’s using esp32c2 from this teardown

3

Thank you for suggestion. I will keep an eye on tasmota.
One small problem is that I am not that keen on opening it up and potentially ruining it.(My fingers, they ain’t so nimble).
But if there is no other way I will try it out.