Splash into a Smarter Summer - Automate your Home with Sub-G Sensors, Matter and Apple Home
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Splash into a Smarter Summer
Sub-GHz Sensors, Matter Bridging, Apple Home, and Local Smart Actions
Welcome to our 2024 Community Event!
Over the past year, you may have seen many conversations revolving around our Smart Home devices, their compatibility, and our participation in programs such as the Matter Protocol or Works with Apple Home. To help, the focus for this year’s summer event revolves around these technologies and the recent updates made to the Tapo platform.
While our Giveaway is often the highlight of our summer event, this year, we have prepared a series of discussions and guides highlighting these features and your experiences.
| Summer Event Schedule |
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| Week 1 |
(June 2nd – June 8th) |
Community Event Introduction and Giveaway Start |
| Week 2 |
(June 9th – June 15th) |
Apple Home, HomeKit, and Apple Secure Home Video |
| Week 3 |
(June 16th – June 22nd) |
Matter + Device Compatibility with Third-Party Platforms |
| Week 4 |
(June 23rd – June 29th) |
Automating Your Home |
| Week 5 |
(June 30th – July 6th) |
Event Wrap-Up (July 3rdth – End of Giveaway) |
We would love to hear from you if you have experience using your Tapo or Kasa devices with another platform, whether through an official integration or through Matter. Keep an eye on our events over the next few weeks, as we will have a few opportunities to gain more entries and talk with our team!
*Giveaway Winners Will Be Informed Early, with Event Winners Being Posted on July 12th
Splash into a Smarter Summer with TP-Link – Summer Giveaway 2024
Sub-GHz Sensors, Matter Bridging, Official Integrations, and Local Smart Actions
(June 3rd – July 5thth, 2024)
Along with the content listed above, our summer giveaway this year revolves around Apple HomeKit, Matter, and Sub-G Sensors. As a bonus, completing 6 actions will automatically provide you with a 20% discount code eligible for use on select bundles of Tapo sensors and hubs throughout June!
To complement the content listed above, our giveaway products this year revolve around Apple HomeKit, Matter, and Sub-GHz. As a bonus, completing 6 actions will automatically provide you with a 20% off coupon eligible for use on a compatible bundle of Tapo Sensors throughout June!
1 x Tapo Sensor Bundle Giveaway (Hub, Contact, Motion)
2 x Tapo C125 HomeKit Cameras
5 x Tapo P125M Tapo Matter Smart Plugs
Enter the Giveaway on Gleam Here!
*Entry Methods Updated / Added on 6/11
Come Back Each Week for More Discussions, Official Content, and Giveaway Entry Methods
Giveaway Notes:
*View the Complete Terms of the Giveaway Here. Must be a resident of the United States and 13 Years of Age or Older, No Purchase Necessary.
“Leave a Comment” Entry Method: After providing your TP-Link ID in the Giveaway, your first comment on each post will be validated and count towards your giveaway entries.
Please Note: To keep the conversations welcoming and on-topic, comments unrelated to the features, standards, devices, and events will be removed (Requests for Availability, Complaints About Support, General Venting, etc.)
This Week, we are focusing on the Apple Home platform and how you can use your TP-Link devices with Apple Home through either the Matter Protocol or Apple HomeKit. If you have heard of Apple HomeKit, looking for compatible devices, or want to know more – check our latest Story Article:
What is Apple Home, HomeKit, and Apple Home Secure Video?
It has always been our goal to provide devices capable of working with the Apple Home ecosystem, and we are always looking to hear how and why you prefer to use your devices in the Apple Home App.
If you missed the update earlier this year, the H100 Sub-GHz Hub can now be added to Apple Home via Matter Bridging. This allows you to bring your motion, contact, and temperature sensors into Apple Home for further automation. While this is a Matter Protocol Feature, Apple’s implementation allows your Tapo sensors to be seen by Apple Home.
KB: Bridging Your Tapo H100 Sub-GHz Smart Hub to Apple Home
How Have You Used Your Tapo and Kasa Devices with Apple Home and Other HomeKit Devices?
This week our team is diving headfirst into one of our most popular topics, the Matter Protocol. We are exploring how the Matter Protocol is beginning to reshape smart home ecosystems and what devices are compatible with the technology. If you are interested in learning more about the Protocol and how our devices can use the protocol, check out our newly updated story:
TP-Link and Matter: What is the Matter Protocol?
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What You Need to Get Started with Matter Devices
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A few months ago, our team gathered your feedback on Matter Devices, what devices you want to see next, your most common questions on the protocol, and what platforms you use your Matter Devices with. You can see a summary of the results and answers to your most common questions here:
The Results Are In! – What Matter Device Do You Want to See Next
Note: With the latest 1.3 Matter specification update, we received word of a few exciting updates and releases coming soon. While our teams are not quite ready to make an announcement, we are working on the latest update and will provide a separate update as soon as we possibly can, so stay tuned!
Have a Question about the Matter Protocol? Leave a Comment Below!
Throughout the last year, we have seen the release of Tapo’s Sub-G Sensors, and we also spent the first few months of this year showcasing how they can be used to automate your home. These sensors have become even more powerful with the latest Smart Actions 2.0 update.
While our team has put together a few of our favorite automations used in our homes, we really want to learn how you have been automating your smart home.
Automating Your Tapo Smart Home and Sub-G Sensors
Voice Notifications for Tapo Sensors via Voice Assistant Hubs, Speakers, and TVs
How Are You Automating Your Smart Home?
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What’s New in the Latest Smart Action 2.0 Platform
Automate and Learn More About Tapo Sub-GHz Sensors, Matter, Apple Home, and Local Smart Actions!
20% Select Sub-G Hubs Available to All Participants! | Get Started Here!Comment
Tapo plugs allow me to keep my home lit at night when not home.
Time to enhance and/or upgrade my Deco X55 system?
Hey @NJKen,
Great to hear! Do you use schedules or Smart Actions to accomplish this?
If you have not yet given it a try, you can try the new Tapo Geofencing feature to automatically toggle your lights based on your phone location.
Automate and Learn More About Tapo Sub-GHz Sensors, Matter, Apple Home, and Local Smart Actions!
20% Select Sub-G Hubs Available to All Participants! | Get Started Here!Hey @ggahan,
It could be, depending on your network needs and the devices on your network.
The X55 is still one of our most popular Decos and its performance is more than enough for normal networks and traffic. But if your network has a lot of new devices, HQ video streams, or has a lot of traffic passing through it, it may be worth keeping an eye out for deals and upgrades to Wi-Fi 6E and 7 Decos.
If you are looking for something in particular or are experiencing slowdowns with your network, our teams would be more than willing to help you out in our Deco forums or on our recent story for comparing Decos.
Automate and Learn More About Tapo Sub-GHz Sensors, Matter, Apple Home, and Local Smart Actions!
20% Select Sub-G Hubs Available to All Participants! | Get Started Here!
Several automations and smart actions via the Smart Action 2.0 feature of the Tapo app. I make extensive use of Tapo sensors and hubs, and a number of Tapo bulbs, smart plugs, and Kasa plugs. All devices are scattered across five different physical locations as far as 90 miles apart. The only feature I have not made use of is the geofencing ability.
Garage doorr:
I have a generic garage door opener, whose power is managed by a smart plug. I have the garage door power on a schedule so that it can't be opened at night at all.
I have also wired up another smart plug to briefly power on and then power off again after one second whenever I hit the "smart action" button. This brief, 1 second poweron->poweroff triggers a relay that closes for that one second to act as a press of the garage door, thereby letting me open my garage door without the use of a separate remote door opener, or also in case I forget it.
There is a door sensor on that door that notifies me of the door's state. I also have a camera pointed at the door which I can look at if I happen to get such an alert. This gives me complete ability to control the garage door as necessary from wherever I want.
Porch light:
My front porch light uses a smart bulb which is triggered to turn on by the use of a motion sensor, but only set to come on between sunset and sunrise. This same bulb is configured to turn on full bright red if any door in the house is opened during "after hours". This is also accompanied by every automated light turning on and every hub in the house making enough noise at least to let any intruder know that their presence has been detected. If I wanted a loud alarm, I could probably wire up a loud physical device via a smart plug toggled relay, much like the garage door opener button.
Front porch
The same motion sensor on the front porch will alert to any activity there and create an audible noise on the hubs. Whether it's solicitors, guests, or packages left at the door, an overhead camera lets me see who or what is there when I get the alert.
Mail slot:
Any mail placed inside the mail chute triggers a unique alert that happens on a 10 second delay, since the front porch motion sensor alarm sounds first. If I hear the front porch first and then the mail chute, then I know the mailman has walked by and left me to some mail.
Misc lights
Several lights in the house are triggered by a single light switch being turned on. The lights can still be toggled independently, but being able to turn on multiple lights with a single press can be convenient.