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Autoimate Tapo app on Android to report power status periodically

Autoimate Tapo app on Android to report power status periodically

Autoimate Tapo app on Android to report power status periodically
Autoimate Tapo app on Android to report power status periodically
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Model: Tapo P110  
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I have a number of P110 plugs for monitoring power usage. I want to collect power/energy data every few minutes from all of them so that it can be included in my overall smart-home system.  Because the Tapo API is a closed API, this is difficult to do from my own software.  Is there a way to achieve this?  Two possibilities have occurred to me:

 

1. Automate the Tapo app to get it to send power/energy data to a specified URL at scheduled intervals.  There are automation features in the app, but nothing like this.

2. Periodically poll the Tapo app by sending it some form of request from external software, either to a URL it listens on, or by sending the app an Android intent.

 

I can see no way to do this in the app as it stands.  If I am wrong, please enlighten me.

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Re:Autoimate Tapo app on Android to report power status periodically
14 hours ago

  @marshallarts 

 

You might want to look into using third-party platforms like Amazon Alexa or Google Home for more options. Another idea is to try the Tapo P110M. It’s a Matter-certified smart plug that monitors energy usage and works with more platforms, including Home Assistant.

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Re:Autoimate Tapo app on Android to report power status periodically
11 hours ago

  @Wayne-TP Thanks, but I want nothing to do with Amazon or Google for my home automation. Not that interested in Home Assistant either.  Most of my system runs on software that is all my own work, with almost no reliance on cloud-based platforms.  Anyway, I have managed to work around the problem - I found another P110 that had older firmware in it, have substituted that into my system and made sure that ALL my Tapos now have firmware auto-update switched off.  This post was prompted because I had missed setting one of them NOT to auto-update its firmware and it updated a week or so ago, causing the software I use to talk to them being unable to interact with it.  But the swap gets me back to normal operation, and (I hope) nothing should change unless I allow it to.

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