3 way Dimmer switch?
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Does TP-Link have any plans in the near future to release a 3-way dimmer switch? I have the HS200 and HS220. I would love it if the HS220 had the 3Way capability.
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Yes I noticed that too and can agree about the pains of explaining US consumer prespectives to engineers not exposed to such thoughts and ideas. I try to be involved as much as possible with testing and ensure the US consumer's perspective is seen while a product is in development. It can be trying at times but over the years I hope I have made some impact.
I can say we likely dropped the page to better control questions about a product, as one thing i have made known, Do not add a product to the website until it has launched. I know they are working hard to address the list of concerns you specifically brought up. From a meeting yesterday it appears we have kind of re-entered Beta testing, which you are likely one of the tester and are trying to address the concerns before we officailly launch. All I can ask is too keep the feed back comming and please share your thoughts publically here as well. Good or bad I want to make sure we have a written record of it so we can make sure this flawed launch turns into a roaring success.
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I agree. This is a surprisingly bumpy release for a company that has such a great track record otherwise. I'm sticking with it and will help however I can. Unfortunately, I haven't heard from either of the developers in a few days.
Regarding the website, I figured the pages were pulled for now because of all the issues, but before they were, the final release page was actually up with a broken "buy it now" link (404) for a day or two. That was actually more surprising, considering all the pending issues, than the pages finally being pulled altogether for now.
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I want to say the LED operation you described in your Beta description does not make sense. Maybe I am misunderstanding. It seems both LED nights should be on when the lights are off and off when the lights are on. I don't understand the satellite LED off function.
It would seem that they should make each switch's LED work like single dimmers do.
I also don't understand how making the satellite switch nightlight brighter helps reduce communicatio interference. This feels like an unexpected workaround the development team didn't expect.
Feels like it is time to go back to the drawing board and define the spec based on Nortth Anerican input, not decided by your Chinese developers.
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Hello Carl - Any updates on the launch? I am seeing the product's page is now gives a 404 error.
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@Carl I'm very confused. Does this firmware update turn a regular Kasa dimmer switch into a 3 way dimmer switch?
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@Meldris No, all discussion is about the recent release (KS230 kit).
the previous dimmer switch (HS220) is single pole. It's impossible to become 3-way switch by firmware upgrade
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Last night around 8PM Eastern time, my lights on the KS230 switches dimmed all the way down to zero randomly then needed a minute or two before I could control them by any means. I thought "Cool, maybe it's a pushed firmware update" but I'm still showing 1.0.9 from that first beta you shared at the end of Sept. Anything happen last night that we should be aware of? Any more word on what the production firmware version number would look like? I'm still having the symptoms that @Connu originally laid out a few weeks back.
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Hi @ChrisNorthNJ,
That's interesting. Amazon "off" routines are broken, but I thought only randomly because the routine to turn my KS230 kit off at midnight seemed to work occasionally. I would notice that they were off in the morning sometimes and assumed that the routine actually worked. I wasn't ever up at midnight checking to see if it was the routine. Now I'm thinking that it may actually be a new issue like the one you describe. I think I'll add it to the list. Thanks!
1. The round nightlight is always on regardless of whether the lights are on or off. (remote switch only)
2. The round nightlight is much brighter than other kasa switches including the main switch. (remote switch only)
3. The round nightlight ignores the on/off toggle setting in the kasa app. (remote switch only)
4. The dim level LEDs don't all light up to the left like all the other kasa switches with the v1.09 update installed. (both switches)
5. Long Pressing including custom settings works but Double Tapping doesn't work and behaves like a single tap to turn the lights on or off. (remote switch only)
6. Amazon Routine to toggle switch off fails with Alexa and the kasa app reporting the lights off when they are actually still on.
7. Switch is not editable when setting up a scene. The default setting is 100% and the app won't advance to edit page.
8. Lights occasionally turn off on their own.
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@ChrisNorthNJ i had a similar issue two days ago. The lights were on a couple of hours and then it turned it off by itself. It took a few minutes to be able to turn it on aga
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