P110 - Randomly losing connection and erroneous energy readings
Hello all,
I've been using Tapo smart devices for several months now and for the most part no issues at all. However over the last few weeks a few of them have been misbehaving.
Issue #1 - Loss of connection followed by random spike in reported energy use
Today (and what prompted me to reach out) was one of my plugs was not reporting into the Tapo app nor Home Assistant. The plug had an orange light showing no connectivity. Strange as it is right by my main router/AP and the plugs by it were connected fine. I unplugged it, plugged it back in and it immediately connected but the app was showing a huge spike in energy, more than it would have used during the time it lost connection:
This is what it shows. However if we compare it to yesterday which is a typical day of usage for this device:
We can see a huge discrepency. I expect a spike if it's the energy used during the downtime, but 7kWh is over 7x more than what it would use in a day. I've had this happen on one or two other plugs too.
Issue #2 - Devices randomly turning on
Twice I have had a Tapo plug power on by itself. Both times the plug was set to default to "Off" and nothing was set for them to turn on, no timers/schedules etc. Today my rice cooker turned on at 5am. The only possible reason is my router restarted at 5am to perform an update so connectivity would have been briefly lost, but I wouldn't expect this to cause a device to switch on?
Any help would be appreciated. I am very much deep into the Tapo ecosystem with probably 40-50 devices so do not wish to replace them all.
