Missing Devices

#1

With some help I was able to get SmartThings to see my Kasa TP-Link devices. But webCore does not recognize these devices.

I have a piston where if someone walks into the family room after midnight the front door light comes on for 6 minutes. I want to add turning on the family room lights, ie Lights (like I had in Stringify). Unfortunately webCore does not see “Lights” as an accessible device.

I can control the Kasa wifi controller with ST but webCore does not see it so I cannot add it to my piston.

Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

#2

TP-Link devices are usually best avoided for inter-connectivity.

That being said, if webCoRE can control the devices separately, then webCoRE should be able to as well. Try sending a single command to a single device. (I seriously doubt a group will work, but individual commands should have a better chance)

#3

are you saying these devices do not show when you open your webcore instance in the ST app and go to settings > available devices and go to select them?

#4

Thanks jkp for the reply.

Correct, my “Lights” device does not show up in settings & available devices for webCore but ST shows it in the “My Home” list of devices… When I go to my piston, “Lights” does not show up as an available device.

#5

It sounds like the “Lights” you are referring to contains more than one device. Can you try looking for the actual name of the real device, and not the name of a group of devices?

#6

I’m not sure if this helps.
I have a fibaro dual switch which does not show up in webcore. I created two virtual switches, and setup a ST automation to switch the fibaro when the virtual switches were operated. Then I used the virtual switches in webcore.

#7

Thanks MCmore for the response.

“Lights” is only one device that controls the lamps on either side of the sofa, no group.

#8

I am a bit confused… Can you elaborate please?

If “Lights” controls lamps on either side of the sofa, then it sounds like a “group” to me. Can you just turn on Sofa1 and Sofa2 instead of trying to trigger the group called “Lights”…?

#9

Sure, so I have one WiFi switch that connects to two lamps, one on each end of the sofa. Since the room is a little dark I need two lamps and did not see the need to use two WiFi switches to control both of them.

#10

This might give you a clue on what to do to get it to show up in WC.