@rmhart I know of no reason, aside from an occasional bad network, why your phone/tablet/whatever and associated app work better on the same network vs remotely. There is certainly no intrinsic...

Guys, Read this Whatever they chucked up corrupted a whole bunch of stuff... Rebooting a router won't usually do much. (see above discussion). Power cycle the house is the fastest solution, although...

DE: Well that sucks. I was hoping for your own sake it was fixed. Consider power cycling your home. At this moment I suspect we're (well, at least me) being victimized by local deprecation of Kasa...

@DEcosse re: "Try rebooting your router and see what happens - this should renew the local IPs by DHCP " That's mostly incorrect, but may happen that way in some circumstances. A DHCP client will...

All: Let me remind you that this is NOT an app problem. It cannot be for anybody having an Alexa issue. 1) I've proven the switches talk ONLY to Kasa servers (hosted by AWS). 2) We know Alexa is at...

@G_KyleW At present I believe the app always talks to the cloud and the cloud pushes to the device. From the switch downloads at least some config to run, but at reset/power reload. I'm not sure if...