TP-Link Kasa Smart Switches

… on my Pi, ran out of disk space, and so had to free up some space and reboot and such. Everything’s up and running, no errors, logs are good - but my Kasa devices just say Updating in the Home app. If I trigger a flow in Node-RED, it works - it is able to turn on/off the Kasa devices. The Hubitat devices are updating just fine in the Home app, so Home homebridge is working, what’s up with the Kasa devices?! No errors in the logs, either, and the devices never go to “No response” it just stays at “Updating” Help? Edit: Tried a few things, ended up removing the tp-link sub-bridge from Home …

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I went with Lutron Caseta for switches but those are not affordable. My recommendation would be Kasa. Similar functionality but a fraction of the cost. I installed Lutron before finding out about Homebridge otherwise I would’ve gone the Kasa route. If money is not an issue then Lutron is the best of the ones I tried.

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I have started using the TP Link Kasa units. The single pole switch is $20 on Amazon. The set also has dimmer and three way. They work perfectly fine with Homebridge and HomeKit

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I’m not sure about lights that are natively “smart”, unfortunately. We plug our normal, cheap Christmas lights into Kasa plugs and switches and use the Kasa plugin for Homebridge.

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Instructions are pretty straightforward if you’re even a little technically inclined.. PM me if it doesn’t work, and I’ll walk you thru it. I have TPLink Kasa in homekit with my RPi2. https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge/wiki/Running-HomeBridge-on-a-Raspberry-Pi

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I use the Kasa Linksys plugs. They works great and they are cheap. The Homebridge plugin works great too.

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Check TP-link, a.k.a. Kasa

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Kasa / TP-Link has been solid for me, I know it’s lower cost than most plugs I have bought in the past but not sure if it’s the cheapest.

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… They just need a way to push status updates from themselves back to HomeKit. This should result in a maximum two second delay. That is something that the Kasa switches simply cannot do. It is a limitation that I am willing to live with, however, as the only accessory is controlled automation but I'm using a Kasa device for is one for a virtual switch that only affects things under the hood in our smart home, so if there is a couple seconds late it's fine.

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Instaled homebridge in docker and plugins for wyze cams and kasa tplink switches. Everything shows up in homekit app. Strange thing, wyze cams function perfectly, but when kasa switch is activated in homebridge or homekit it reacts, except the actual switch does not. What in hell am i doing wrong??

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forgive my ignorance but isnt Homebridge a method of allowing non HK compliant devices to run on HK? i am very new to home automation so looking for ways add my TP-Link Kasa equipment to HK given TP\_link decided to not pursue HK integration and i thought this was a good method to do this but i might be wrong

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