Thanks so much for your patience on this. I do feel like an idiot. The white "neutrals" were wire nutted together in the box...of course I assumed it was a neutral. The hot and travelers are, of...

Well, as remote as it might be.....that indeed is the case. My neutral is NOT a neutral but is part of the switched circuit. That certainly explains all of this. Sorry about the runaround! I will...

Yes, I considered the very remote idea of the neutral being switched too....it would explain this situation. But I'm not sure how these lights would have worked for all these years. Pretty...

OK, I just spent more time diagnosing....Yes, I did disconnect both travelers and had complete control of the switch in the app...no problem (and, of course I had no working lights). I reconnected...

Thanks Bethel.8009. I really appreciate the time spent working on my problem. What you say makes a lot of sense but I don't think you erred in your original thoughts. TP-Link makes it clear that the...

OK, to add to this, I went back and verified my connections....they are correct. But, I was unable to move on to the connect to wifi portion of the setup. If I turn another switch on, all my lights...