Why can't Smart Devices change router SSID and/or Password?
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I have almost 20 plugs and for various legitimate reasons I sometimes have need to change my WiFi SSID and/or password.
Indeed, changing a WiFi password on occasion is a security best practice.
Unfortunately, to do so would require the following:
1. Factory reset all plugs which are scattered all over our house from basement to 3rd floor, some in hard to reach places
2. One-by-one pairing and initializing of all 20 plugs with the Mobile app (takes several minutes each as multple clicks are required and the Web app is slow to pair)
3. Rename each individual plug back to its original name in the App -- again slow with multiple clicks for each plus need to thumb type on a mobile phone
4. Add back groups, schedules, timers, scenes etc. for each plug -- again multiple if not hundreds of clicks -- let alone needing to remember the schedule or timers for each
5. Similarly add back groups, devices, schedules etc. in the paired Alexa and/or Google Home apps.
This is many hours of work just to change a simple WiFi password.
It should instead be trivial to use the Kasa app to simultaneously broadcast a changed SSID and/or password to one or more devices based on checkboxes.
I am not the first to mention this problem.
The only response I have heard from Kasa is something like "Unfortunately you need to factory reset the device in order to change SSID or password".
Well DUH!!!! That is the problem!!!!
How incompetent can your software engineers be not to recognize and fix such an obvious and easy to solve shortcoming in your App software and/or device firmware?
Really, this is software engineering 101.
Thanks
