KL400L5 Light Strip disconnects
I have the KL400L5 light strip and I'm using the Kasa app on my phone to control the lights. I chose the model of KL430 for the bug report since that is the closest I could find. Sometimes the App will disconnect from the lights, it will no longer be able to control them. If I wait about a minute then it will come back. I have checked my wifi strength and it looks good. The light strip is about 6' from my Deco M5 wifi hot spot. I also put a constant ping on the light strip to verify it did not lose connectivity and it does not. I also tried to control this light strip with my Home Assistant server. It does the same thing, I can control it sometimes but then the HA server reports the light strip 'became unavailable'. But after about a minute it comes back. I'm assuming this is a bug with the firmware of the light strip.
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@Paul_Michael Thank you so much for debugging this and provding a workaround! Crazy that this is still a problem almost two years after you posted your workaround.
Quick note if you are using a Deco router: You can use parental control to block your Light Strip (only way I found working). Just make sure you remove the device from the smart devices in the Deco app. Otherwise it won't show up when trying to add it to a profile. Then you can just block the profile indefinitely (see screenshot above).
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