Hi  @Riley_S, 

Thank you for the response. I've given this same feedback to different tp-link folks a few times over the last 2-3 years...  So excuse me for being seriously doubtful at this point it'll ever get addressed. Especially since it looks like your shutting down Kasa in favor of Taco.  It's unfortunate, the product themselves are pretty good having tried several systems.  This one aspect of the app hobbles them though and I'd probably never have bought a single Kasa product if I'd realized up front this would be such a mess over time.

Anyway, it's not complicated, just have a top level grouping based on location.  No different than Google Home, Alexa, HomeKit, and most of the others do.

My situation is that I have two homes and an office. So 3 physically separate locations. 

In total, I have 2 smart color changing light bulbs, 27 smart plugs (2 are power strips), and 22 light switches.  Roughly evenly splut between 3 locations.

For the two homes I abbreviate one MR and one TE for the street they're on and prefix all the devices there with the two letters. This is the lesser of two evils workaround. 

For example, devices get named "MR Kitchen Lights", "MR Outdoor Lights", "MR LIving Room Lights" and "MR Landing Lights", then at the other property "TE Kitchen Lights", "TE Outdoor Lights", and "TE LIving Room Lights". 

I tried using a suffix instead, for example, "Kitchen Lights MR" and "Kitchen Lights TE", but doesn't logically group them together alphabetically in the app by location, AND seriously breaks voice commands. 

It is easier with a suffix to find Kitchen Lights in the list, but it makes using it painful because all the other lights for that house aren't next to each other. I'm usually needing to turn off/on "MR Kitchen Lights", "MR Outdoor Lights", and "MR Landing Lights" all at the same time... With 50 lights it's a total PITA to find all three in the list if they're named "Kitchen Lights MR", "Outdoor Lights MR", and "Landing Lights MR" since there are 4-5 items alphabetically between each of those.

The Kasa app ought to be smart enough to use the same name in different locations and show the location I'm at, with the ability to switch to another location if/when I need to.  And again, this carries through to Google Home, Alexa, etc, since they all USE whatever name you put into Kasa.  So, while I can group them properly in those apps, the names are all still awkward.

Second, using the prefix as I do, "MR Kitchen Lights", "MR Outdoor Lights", and "MR Landing Lights" is still hard to find because "MR Landing Lights" is actually a smart wall plug. Even though it's controlling lights and one logically thinks of it as a "light", it's not LISTED with all my other lights that are controlled by switches.  It literally makes no sense whatsoever to separate plugins from switches from light bulbs.  No user would ever "think" this way. We name things for a reason.

To reiterate, coming up with clever names to manage this breaks voice commands and neither naming them with a prefix that groups them within their product type, nor a suffix that alphabetizes them by the actual room name is actually a good solution.  

And the answer to the other obvious logical question not mentioned above is yes I do frequently need to control the devices at a property I'm not physically at. Turning on/off lights at home or work, turning on/off heaters or airconditioning to warm/cool where I'm headed, etc...  Or in the rental example turning on/off the lights at a rental property before guests arrive, or turning off a heater after they leave.  

  @Riley_S OMGosh!  This is WONDERFUL!!!  I just updated and sorting everything into houses and rooms!  

PS.  Thank you for defaulting to "_Main_ Bedroom".  Language matters.

  @Riley_S Hey, it really is great.   

Ran into a pretty minor thing.  I have several outdoor KP400s.  I'm finding it a little annoying that I can't put each plug of a power strip in a different room if I want too.  

Why? On one of those KP400s, one plug controls my outdoor deck lights, but the other plug controls the waterfall in my koi pond.  

I want to have a room for "Outdoors" which would really be for all my outdoor lights and a couple bug traps.  I want to have another room just for my Ponds which just has all the stuff related to my 3 ponds (2 small and 1 big).  

The reason for making these different rooms and not just different groups is that I often turn off all the outdoor lights at once, but I would NEVER want to turn off the pond equipment (some of it like lights are on schedule, but other things like the pumps and aerators stay on 24/7).  

Anyway, I'll try putting them all in an "Outdoor" room, and then just groups, with a room called "Ponds Lights" and another room "Pond Equipment".  Maybe me wanting separate rooms is over-organizing things...  but like I said, I have a LOT of devices.

Again, so far SUPER happy with the new app.  Homes are "life-changing".