If you’re trying to configure a TP-Link device on a Wifi without internet access, here’s how. Download the Kasa app to your phone. Go through the wizard normally, and when you get to network selection, tell the device to connect to your “internal” network. The device light will go blue to tell you …

[image] auzick: Now, in the Paper UI, (and with “TP-Link Smart Home Binding” installed) attempt to manually add the device. You provide your desired name and the IP address, and just put some random string in the “Device ID” field. Save this, and after a few moments, the device will show “offlin…

My kasa app does not let me do this, I have no internet on my wifi network and I cannot connect to my switch (hs-200) for anything.

@Racerflea : Bear in mind that without internet access, the Kasa app will report an error after you tell the device to connect to your network. You can ignore that … Kasa is throwing an error because it couldn’t connect to it’s cloud server. If you gave it the correct wifi credentials, the device sho…

@hilbrand : Ahhhh, better. I’ll try that when I add the next one. Thanks!

@hilbrand I just tried it using discovery, but it didn’t work. Not surprising, since it is on a separate VLAN from the OH server. Not really an issue to add it manually, though. Thanks!

My Kasas are set to one second, only because I never thought to monkey with the default value. There’s no discernable impact on my WiFi network, and I have about 10-15 of them in play. I assume Hilbrand had a reason for making that the default.

Only the switches are on 1 second, to get fast feedback if someone uses the switch.

You can easily configure your TP-LINK Kasa wifi connection using the NODE-based tplink-smarthome-api ( GitHub - plasticrake/tplink-smarthome-api: TP-Link Smarthome WiFi API ) cli and a computer with wifi. This is tested with EU HS100 and HS110 and E27 LB110 and LB120. To configure the devices, proceed…

That technique has apparently been blocked. It results in an error: ‘netif’ not supported module.

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Just curious what you all use for refresh rate in the paper UI ?, does 1 sec mean it is updating the device every second as this seems excessive ?

Will Kasa Smart Plug work on Local Network using OH w/Alexa?