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Stay away from Tapo P110 smart plugs
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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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If it's not compatible with home assistant it's worthless junk. If it requires their app to function, it's worthless junk... you are buying a product that can be rendered a brick at any point, and there are literally hundreds of examples of companies doing exactly this.
Stop buying them, unless you own them and control them.
It is compatible with Home Assistant with the TP-Link Smart Home integration. But you need the Tapo app, a login, and the internet to set them up and for them to work (app could be uninstalled). However they drop offline from the official app as well. No problems with the integration.
They need to be connected to their servers to be set up... worthless junk. At least you've learned a valuable... albeit it, expensive lesson. There is no reason at all to allow these devices to be at the whim of some company. It's a hill I would gladly die upon, and the only things in my home that connect to the internet are my solar/battery system and my thermostat... both can be integrated into home assistant and only the solar/battery system sends any data about generation and battery health, I've even isolated onto guest wifi network to keep it free from the house.
You don't need to explain this to me. I have stated it myself. My post is basically telling others not to buy them.
At the time I needed two urgently, no suitable zigbee units were available where I live, plus the zigbee sockets were twice as expensive if ordered (plus shipping and waiting).
Now there is Ikea etc. cheap but good zigbee devices everywhere so the situation has changed.
So, I knew exactly what I was getting into, but I just needed it. It was two of them and I consider they were the best option to buy at that time, and I got several years of use out of them. And they were the cheapest back then.