hellenjos is a spammer, her comment was nonsense posted to imbed a link. At least it wasn't a porn link like one of the other spammers has posted - TP Link seems to have abandoned this forum....

Not sure about the device being bound to another account - maybe it was refurbished? The TP Link support (where ever they've gone, they seldom come here anymore!) will need to help you. The remote...

You might want to prepare yourself for complaints from others that using these bulbs is really annoying, that life was so much easier when they could use a regular wall switch :). There's a few...

Yes that's the expected behavior, as you realized (and support failed to realize!) if the bulb is powered off it can only be turned on by re-applying power. Because of course without power it can't...

You could add them all to your network then walk around the house with your phone in hand. Operate each switch manually and find it in Kasa's list by looking for which has changed to rename it...

Looks like a good product, but unfortunately still cloud based... For mission critical needs (in my case it's my home security system) I've setup a local server with battery backup and cellular SMS...