TP Link Kasa Integration not getting my devices

Third party integrations
1

I have some HS200 wall switches from TP link and no matter what i do, i can’t connect to them via Home assistant. The switches are in the Kasa App, even smarthings can control them.
What i tried so far:

  • Restart the home assistant

-Reboot the whole Virtualbox

-Clear cache from chrome

-adding the following to configuration.yaml:
tplink:
** discovery: true lso tried using “false” here)
switch:
- host: Device_IP
- host: Device_IP

  • give them static IP’s.

What i can’t try because i’m using the DyNDNS of my router already for a different purpose:

  • Connect Home assistant to the devices using Smarthings

Nothing works.
*************Note: Home assistant running from a virtualbox in ubuntu 20.04
Thanks

2

Have you updated the firmware of your devices?

Then your devices will no longer work locally / in HA as the local API was removed/blocked by TP-Link. Only devices on older firmware will work.

My recommendation: ditch the TP-Link stuff and get some Shelly plugs.

3

No, i have not, but it says that is the Latest version.

Thanks

4

I think its only he UK versions that have firmware that are locked down for third party access.

5

No, that’s definitely not limited to the UK.

6

Well, it’s a shame that is not going to work because of the firmware, homeassistant should put that inside the documentation just in case other users wants to buy those

7

It has been in there for months already. :slight_smile:
Its the text just under the headline.

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8

Three of my Kasa devices have been problematic for some time. Two wall switches and one plug occasionally loose a strong Wifi signal and I need to unplug the plug or cut the circuit breaker for the switches for them to reset. One of the switches finally died, so I replaced it with a new switch that I had laying around. In setting up the new switch, I was asked to update firmware and I did since that’s normally best practice. My espresso machine failed to turn on this morning, so I investigated and discovered that my 12 Kasa devices have been greatly devalued. I have switches linked to motion sensors that now don’t work. I’ll never buy anything from TP-Link again.

9

I might be a little late but I had the same problem until I got 2 new ones, I hooked them up and did not update the firmware restarted HA it found them and I just signed in with my UN & PW. So I went back to my other 2 that I did update the firmware and reset them to factory then did the same this time with no updates to FW and it worked great.