Can Alexa treat selected HS100s as lights?
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Can Alexa treat selected HS100s as lights?
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I have a few Echo Dots in my house and I'm dipping my toe into home automation by way of a handful of HS100s. I have two uses for the plugs:
1. as a controllable power source for devices in a room (e.g. to simply power on/off the computer, monitors, shredder, printer in my study).
2. as a controller for lights.
It is the second of these that I would like address. With Alexa groups I can add one of my Echo Dots to a device group. E.g. the I can create a group containing the Dot in my kitchen along with a pair of HS100s that are controlling a pair of lights. If these were smart bulbs, I could walk into the kitchen and instruct Alexa to "turn on the lights". The Dot would control the smart bulbs in its group.
The question: is there a way to specify/configure a specific HS100 so that it behaves as a light?
Interestingly, TP-Link encourages this use case in its Smart Plug FAQ (8th question).
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
I have a few Echo Dots in my house and I'm dipping my toe into home automation by way of a handful of HS100s. I have two uses for the plugs:
1. as a controllable power source for devices in a room (e.g. to simply power on/off the computer, monitors, shredder, printer in my study).
2. as a controller for lights.
It is the second of these that I would like address. With Alexa groups I can add one of my Echo Dots to a device group. E.g. the I can create a group containing the Dot in my kitchen along with a pair of HS100s that are controlling a pair of lights. If these were smart bulbs, I could walk into the kitchen and instruct Alexa to "turn on the lights". The Dot would control the smart bulbs in its group.
The question: is there a way to specify/configure a specific HS100 so that it behaves as a light?
Interestingly, TP-Link encourages this use case in its Smart Plug FAQ (8th question).
