Whitney Krape

Category: Open Issue

  • Kasa/Tapo Issues with Home Assistant (and in general)

    Kasa and/or Tapo are not showing devices in Home Assistant and sometimes they aren’t staying connected to the iOS apps.

    So far Kasa devices have stayed out of the way and occasionally being able to start the switches remotely is helpful. With Home Assistant I’ve started to set timing to the switches for waking up or turning off lights but one of the power strips just refuses to authenticate in Home Assistant. (Even though other items in the same account auth?)

    At the moment don’t have an answer. Tried the Tapo app, which is kinda worse than the Kasa app, tried removing and readding, all the standard items.

    Updated 2025/11/13

  • Potential F3800 API Options

    Following up on the F3800, otherwise quite good dual voltage standalone home backup but sans API, there are attempts at connecting to the unit. The standout is GitHub thomluther’s builds for Solix products but these are mainly balcony units outside the US. https://github.com/thomluther/ha-anker-solix

    Second there is an attempt at connecting via the Bluetooth local connection but, when I tried it, it didn’t easily connect and my bit registers seemed to be different so any updates by Anker might completely wreck the IO. https://github.com/tiger2380/anker_f3800_web

    For the first, the issue is the F3800 (plus or non I am guessing) doesn’t create a System (as defined in Anker’s config) so the endpoints are not available. That said, once connected to WiFi the unit can be managed from any location, not just on the same network, so the unit has cloud management but the endpoints aren’t clear. The second API option, tapping right into the local Bluetooth, would be ideal but relying on reading bit output has any number of issues.

    There are Ecoflow HA options and it would be interesting just to see what the potential is there.