TP-Link Kasa HS200 Switches Not Discoverable

Third party integrations
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I’m encountering a strange issue trying to add some new Kasa / TP-Link HS200 switches to my Home Assistant configuration. I am no stranger to Kasa/TP-Link products have successfully integrated 40+ Kasa devices into HA.

Here are the details:

  • Currently running HA v2023.7.3 as a VM on Unraid (v6.12.3)
  • I added 3 new HS200-BL Kasa switches and connected them to my usual IoT VLAN’ed wireless network.
  • I have assigned static IPs (and also tried with dynamic IPs assigned by my Unifi router)
  • I have added the IP addresses into my config.yaml (same as I’ve done with the other 40+ Kasa devices)
  • I have restarted HA multiple times
  • I have restarted the entire network multiple times
  • I have restarted Unraid
  • I have power-cycled the switches

I can see and activate the switches directly within the Kasa / TP-Link app (as well as Smartthings - which I do NOT have integrated with HA)

When I try to auto-discover the new devices, they are not found. When I try to manually enter the IP address, they are still not found.

I don’t think that I’m doing anything differently than I had before with all of my other Kasa switches.

Any advice or troubleshooting that I should review?

Screenshot of how I’ve previously setup the “host” IPs within the config.yaml:

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I am bit confused… HS200 switches are Homeseer Zwave. As far as the Kasa-TPLink switches, do they show in your Kasa App ?

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The HS200 is the single-pole wifi Kasa/TP-Link switch: [https://a.co/d/66pBEaC](https://Kasa HS200).

Yes, I can see (and control) these switches from the Kasa app.

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Are you using this TP Link integration?

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Sure am:

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Have you tried:
(1) Reboot your HA box
(2) Delete the integration and re-installing it

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I have rebooted my HA box several times (it’s a VM in Unraid).

If I delete the integration, will I lose all of my existing devices/entities/configs?

I appreciate your advice!

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You may have to update your automations.

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Update - I just tried adding a new HS200 (not the HS200-BL) and it added perfectly to my Home Assistant. Something is definitely different about the HS200-BL (the “-BL” is for the black switch).

Per the user manual, there is a different setup/initialization procedure for the HS200-BL which seems to connect to the switch via Bluetooth (?) first and then assigns the wifi credentials.

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Still - my Unifi router sees the HS200-BL switch just like it does all of my other HS200 (non “-BL”) switches. It’s on a 2.4GHZ IOT network with a static IP.

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Any update on this? I have the black ones too, haven’t tried ha yet

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I ended up swapping the internals of the black HS200 with some white ones. Annoyed that I had to essentially buy 2 switches - but that was the only solution that I could come up with that worked. The black switches were essential for my home theater (and still cheaper than other black smart switches on the market)

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