HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa

HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa

HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa
HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa
2025-12-04 23:11:45
Model: Kasa HS210  
Hardware Version: V3
Firmware Version: 1.0.10

I've installed the Kasa HS210 switches---one at each end of a 4-way setup. Everything seems to work fine except that most of the time the app and sometimes the switch wrongly identifies whether the lights are on or off. In addition, somtimes I have to double tap the app to turn the lights on/off. What I mean is, I tap on the switch in the app and in the app the graphic changes from off to on, but the lights themselves don't turn on. Tap again, app changes from on to off and the lights turn on.

 

I'm fairly certain I have everything wired correctly, it's just that the app (and therefore google home) doesn't quite know what's going on.

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Re:HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa
2025-12-08 09:33:26
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Re:HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa
2025-12-12 09:19:19

  @PGregory 

 

HS210 has not been tested to work in a four-way setup. I'm afraid we don't have suggestions for your case.

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Re:HS210 Kit app showing off when lights are on and vice versa
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  @PGregory obviously the official response is that the HS210 isn't guaranteed to work in anything more than a 3-way setup. However, the fact remains that a 4-way, 5-way, 6-way etc. setup is just a 3-way setup with one or more 4-way switches added to the traveler wires between the two 3-way switches. So there's really no wiring-related difference. But, as another forum user first noted, the longer traveler wires create a capacitance effect that throws off the HS210's current-sensing circuitry that it uses to determine whether or not the lights are on. This problem is compounded by the fact that most of our modern loads are capacitive (LEDs, CFLs). The solution, at least in most cases, is to add a 1MΩ resistor (I used one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QRF4DM7 ) across the traveler terminals of the HS210. I would add it to the line-side switch if you have two HS210s in the circuit, though you only really need one. This resistor acts as a "drain" to reduce the capacitance between the traveler wires and allow the HS210's current-sensing circuitry to properly do its job.

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