I just started playing around with Homey. I have TPlink switches and a bunch of Govee lights. They all work just fine if I turn them on and off in the Homey app, but if I, say, activate a TPlink switch manually, the app either never picked up the change or it takes a long time. This is a total no-go for me since I really want to use Homey flows to turn on other lights if a switch is turned on. Is this normal behavior or is there something I can do? Do I maybe need the bridge or something?
Stay away from devices that need to be polled as many wifi and cloud devices and other devices like RF 433Mhz that only receive and can’t transmit.
F.e. Zigbee and Z-Wave devices usually send an update to their controller giving immediate feedback.
Well, that’s not really the case since Amazon Alexa picks up all changes just fine and they’re all connected in the same manner, through an app connection. Not sure why Homey would be any different.
What Homey do you use?
What App are you using?
What devices?
Pls read: [Tip] Problems with Homey?
…Because its another software. In some cases other software might be better. But that is not an argument for this community forum. You have three choices:
- use the app for you switch as it is.
- contact the developer the way it is mentioned in the app description
- write your own app
Or you can create a virtual device and let Alexa tell it the right status.
But don’t bother us (other users) with Alexa, Siri, Homee, Homatic, Lidl, Bosch or Ikea is better.
If they are better (for you), use them and be happy!
What is your problem? I said nothing about it being better. Why do you think I’m trying out Homey? I like the app better. Sheesh. Take a freaking chill pill, man. If you didn’t immediately jump down my throat, you’d see I was saying it is not true that the devices can’t transmit. If that were the case, Alexa wouldn’t be able to do what I’m trying to do with Homey.
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disconnect the switch and the lights.
try to get the switch into Homey. so homey can detect a button pressed and use it as a trigger.
and let this trigger turn on tour Govee lights.
Thanks for actually trying to help. I’m using Premium, not Pro. I don’t have a bridge or anything. I have Android. They’re HS200 tplink switches, but I have a variety of govee lights. Like I said, Alexa as well as the apps for tplink and govee both detect the switches turning on and off via the switch.
This would maybe work for the TPLink switches, but for Govee, it has a lot of configuration that would be lost if I didn’t have it added through the app, I’d think.
Sorry, my reaction was not appropriate.
According to your question, why Homey does not recognise the state of the switches, I would propose to contact Homey support as mentioned in the kasa smart app, which I guess is the app you are using.
I did submit a ticket to Homey, they didn’t reply. Figured I’d try here. I guessed I can’t be the only one with this issue.
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I don’t know if it’s related or not but check the HW version of your switches. Of my HS200 switches, all the HW 5.0 are working, all the 5.26 do not.
You are not the only one with this issue. A year ago, being new to the whole smart home thing, I went down the wrong rabbit hole. I put TP-Link devises throughout my home mainly because it was cheaper. But now I’m paying for it.
When I press a switch, it won’t update my Homey Pro for 5 min or more. With all the Rate Limiting it just makes it worse.
I’m slowly as money allows switching all my devices to local networks (which will take a year or so). But I love Homey Pro and it’s working with all the devices they suggest. I just wish I would have started out the right way.
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