New Release Kasa APP 3.0
2022/12 Update
Update the URL of Kasa APP to the official app version
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Now we are delighted to announce the breaking news that Kasa APP is about to get a major update with multiple amazing changes to the UI and interactions. Before the official release on App Store and Google Play, we invite you to participate in the community trial of the Kasa APP 3.0. Please install the Kasa APP 3.0 via the following link:
Note:
1. You could stop testing the APP trial at any time by removing it directly and then download the official APP via App Store or Google Play.
2. How to use Testflight on iPhone: https://testflight.apple.com/.
New Features and UI Enhancement:
More Powerful Home Page
- Active Scenes with a single tap
- Reorder ALL Devices by its product category, let the most important devices show up first.
- Next Event
See what’s the next event that’s going to happen in the home page.
Home and Room Features
Managing multiple smart devices is now easier than ever with new Home and Room Settings in the Kasa APP.
- Home: create Homes for smart devices at different locations and manage them separately.
- Room: create rooms and organize your devices in separate rooms.
There you can put the most-used devices in Favorites section and find out your favorite devices immediately.
Improved Smart Action
Automate your life with more powerful Smart Action settings.
- Featured Smart Actions: the previous Smart Action feature now displays in cards format for easy setup. It also provides some preset routine actions to match your daily routines.
Now 64 Smart Action rules are supported in the Kasa APP 3.0 ~~
- Scenes: the new Scene allows to you perform an action with a simple tap. In additional to control one or a group of smart devices like the previous Scene, you can also enable or disable a Smart Action rule. The current Scene feature now has two options
- Enable/ Disable Smart Action
- Control Smart Devices
If you would like to set up a new Scene to control your kasa device(s):
Step1: click + on the right top to add a new Scene> select Control Smart Device> Add Action
Step2: select a smart device > choose device status like ON/OFF/ set a ' On' duration (turn ON for a certain period of time)/turn ON/OFF(switch the current status) etc.
Step3 : add more smart device and choose device status
Step4: create a name and then save the settings.
- Smart Actions:
In smart actions, you can use a smart device or Time as the Trigger to control other smart devices.
By setting up a trigger (When trigger happens) and an action (Then execute the action) , you can start an automated life and unlock more smart action scenarios.
Helpful Me Profile
The previous settings sidebar moves to Me page at the bottom of the Kasa APP. Here you can easily check and manage the app related settings like managing your TP-Link ID, setting up Alexa or Google third-party services, updating device firmware etc.
Let's explore what's new the Kasa APP 3.0 has brought to us. Welcome to download and share your experience with us. Any feedback is highly appreciated.
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Hi @Boykin
Thank you for sharing the feedback, for IOS app, here is a topic and provides some workaround or further troubleshooting.
[Solution] New Kasa App broken for iPhone iOS 16 users
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Solla-topee wrote
The new Kasa APP 3.0 still has the option to control your device locally even there is an internet outage.
We appreciate your feedback in regard to the TP-Link ID, indeed previously a few models of Kasa plugs can be controlled without TP-Link ID, as we recently learned this will be phased out to guarantee your device security. TP-Link ID is now required to log in the Kasa app and manage your kasa devices, and the device will receive the most recent firmware and security updates.
If you wish to control device local only not to the cloud, you may consider the workaround like blocking internet access for the smart devices by setting up some access rules in the router or create a different Wi-Fi SSID that has no internet connection, for example, if you have an old AP, connect the kasa devices to the SSID of the AP then disconnect the Internet connection for that AP.
If you still have concern in the account or prefer to get a refund, we encourage you to contact the retailer first or reach our support team via support email TKID221006458 directly so that they can help take a look into your concerns further for your personal situation.
So we set up an internet blocked SSID for the devices, download the mobile app, switch to that SSID on the phone to set up them up / controls them via the Kasa app but can't actually do it because it now wants to create an account which needs internet connectivity?? even though we want to just control locally?
Aside: This suggestion doesn't even address the icing on the cake where some devices ie HS220s (but not HS200s) freak out when there is no internet or DNS, drop all comms and show only a red light (confirmed by unblocking DNS). When DNS is available but internet is not, all devices super aggressively try to reach out to TPLink multiple times per second with no way of turning this off.
Back to the point:
- First, without warning, you push firmware onto devices which lock people out of local control
- Then you backtrack with beta firmwares for a limited time after a user backlash
- Then you say this doesn't affect all devices and won't happen going forward yet new devices still lose local control with firmware updates
- Finally, without warning, you drop local control from your app as well
... all in the name of security? So people who know how to set up a second SSID and block the internet on it don't know how to secure their own networks?
I get it, TPLink needs to cover itself from potential security problems users can experience and claim.. but all this noise, bad press, anger and frustration could have been avoided by:
- Gathering feedback from your users BEFORE making changes. Which could have led to feedback such as this:
- Adding advanced options in the app for THE USER TO ACCEPT THE RISK of local control on EACH device and
- Flipping a bit in that device's firmware to allow local control (unlocking devices)
- Supporting local control in the app for users that have accepted this risk.
... instead we get fundamental product feature changes we didn't ask for, AFTER investing in your products. Go ahead and look up bait and switch.
Congratulations, you have managed to do the exact opposite of your goal and push users away from your products towards more open ones despite there being a perfectly viable solution that would work for both TPLink and users.
For my use cases, if local control is not coming back, I am no longer supporting or recommending this company.
Rest assured, it is only a matter of time before this "feature" "in the name of security" gets posted all over the internet affecting your reputation, where others can also make up their own minds.
If TPLink is concerned about user security, why is it recommending downloading old versions of the Kasa app from third party web stores/sites like apkmirror instead of addressing this issue in the app?
Solla-topee wrote:
Hello @djk
May I know do you use the OS of your mobile device, recently Kasa APP 3.0.3 will come out soon, you could check if the new app will work for you.
In the case of an old network device not allowing upgrading or working better in the previous version.
For the Android, you should be able to download the previous version Andriod Kasa APP from some third party websites like the apk mirror.
For the IOS, there does not seem to be an easy way to revert to the previous version, you may consult the IOS support and see if they have any suggestions.
The app will get better with the more revised versions coming out, I still recommend trying out the new version Kasa app for better performance in the long term.
If TPLink had IOT devices in their buildings, would they trust another company's cloud.. in another country, to run them? through their cloud only? for TPLink's own security as the other company would say?
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