I have a lot of TP-Link Kasa devices in my home. When I first installed HA, it automatically discovered all of them. I was using a 4-year-old TP-Link Deco mesh system at the time.
For reasons unrelated to HA, I had to replace that system. I replaced it with a newer TP-Link Deco system, X55. Once that was installed, HA could no longer access the Kasa devices. It still sees all my other IoT devices.
I removed all the Kasa devices from HA and tried to rediscover them; no luck. I tried using each deviceās IP address for the host to discover them. When I used 192.168.68.67, e.g., I get this error message:
Connection error: Unable to connect to the device: 192.168.68.67:9999: [Erno 113] Connect call failed (ā192.168.68.67ā, 9999)
Iāve rebooted at all places, including resetting a couple of the Kasa devices to see if that worked. My sneaking suspicion is that this new Deco system has a Smart Devices Manager in the app, which only recognizes my Kasa devices on my network (none of the other IoT devices), and somehow thatās interfering with HAās access to these devices.
I am at a loss now of what to try next. Iām currently waiting for customer support from TP-Link to see if thereās a way to turn this Smart Device manager off in the Deco app.
Iām not a sophisticated user, so any advice is much appreciated. Thanks!
Iāve managed to make some progress, but not much. I did manage to remove my Kasa devices from the Deco app management by āremovingā each one. This deleted the custom name for each so that now each shows as its generic model type on my network (e.g., KL110).
After I did that, HA found nine of the 14 devices automatically. It still wonāt find the other five. Every week or so, it discovers a new one on its own, so maybe someday itāll find all of them.
However, I still get the error āFailed setup, will retryā for all of the ones it has found. When I reload, it goes through the initializing stage, then right back to āFailed setup, will retry.ā I have debug logging on, but I donāt see any logs for these devices in my logs. When I go to a specific device, it indicates āNo logbook events found.ā
Iām still able to control these devices via the Kasa app, but I canāt incorporate them into any HA automations.
Any help or suggestions is much appreciated. Thanks!
I did not. Iāve given up on integrating these devices for now, I might return to it some day. For now Iām limited to controlling them through the Kasa app, which isnāt ideal.
All TP-Link Kasa plugs (I have 5, 2x HS110, 3x HS100) were working fine and after an update (around march/april) they arenāt working anymore.
The TP-Link Smart Home addon keeps trying to add them all the time but always fail.
āFailed setup, will retry: Unable to connect to the deviceā
In my setup I have static IP addresses so itās not an IP/network problem, but itās an addon implementation problem.
And devices are working fine both in the Kasa app and with Amazon Alexa (using the TP-LINK Kasa skill), so itās not an hardware problem.
Even if I delete and re-add the device, it gets added, but it doesnāt work.