L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)

L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)

L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)
L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)
Wednesday - last edited Saturday
Model: Tapo L530E  
Hardware Version: V2
Firmware Version: 1.1.1 Build 240623 Rel.114011

Greetings,

 

I bought an L530E the other day, all seemingly worked fine, got it paired and working nicely.

 

Later that evening had some odd 'network fluctuations' where other devices would get booted off the wifi. Woke up and the L530E completely disappeared from the network, wouldn't reconnect.

 

I then tried to reset (and factory reset) it a number of times. For a number of times it got to the 'pairing' stage then gave up. Then it seemingly got past the pairing stage, however now only shows as 'local only', with error code 1, 'the network is unstable'.

 

The router's DHCP server shows the L530E is connected. However, in the router logs there are hundreds of warnings:

 

"Detected suspected ARP attack packets. Be careful!"

and

Detected ARP conflict. Dropped 5 packets. (with some IP and Mac address specific code that I've redacted for this forum).

 

Have searched the forum here and seen the official FAQ, and none of the solutions have worked:

 

automations all disabled

changing name of bulb to a different one in app before pairing

have entered 8.8.8.8 as dns lookup on router

restarted router etc

 

The network already has two L530B's (V3), and two P110M sockets connected for a few months now, all work normally.

 

Phone: A52S Samsung, Android 14

 

 

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Re:L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)-Solution
Saturday - last edited Saturday

  @BulbyMcBulbface Have solved the issue. For anyone needing future reference, this was a DHCP and ARP issue, for some reason the V2 L530E made a mess in the router and tried to steal other devices IPs. First time that's ever happened to me with a 'smart' home product. The solution was to issue it a static IP.

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Re:L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)
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  @BulbyMcBulbface 

 

Did you do the setup in the Tapo app? Please share a screenshot of the error code you received. 

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Re:L530E bizarre behaviour (unpairing, local mode, error no:1)-Solution
Saturday - last edited Saturday

  @BulbyMcBulbface Have solved the issue. For anyone needing future reference, this was a DHCP and ARP issue, for some reason the V2 L530E made a mess in the router and tried to steal other devices IPs. First time that's ever happened to me with a 'smart' home product. The solution was to issue it a static IP.

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