Require Two Clicks for Some Devices?
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I use several HS100 units (HW 2.0/FW 1.5.1) for different purposes, and if I accidentally turn one of them off, I can turn it on again with no problem.
Except for the one unit that I use to control the router at my parents' house. I use this in the very rare cases where I need to remotely reboot their router, and in those cases I set up a 2 minute Timer to turn it On, then turn it Off. Then it's Off and unavailable for the next 2 minutes, and then it turns itself On.
But if I accidentally turn it off, I'm stuck, and then I need to call my elderly parents and have them delve into the garage and walk them through the procedure to find the Smart Plug and turn it back on. This is more difficult than it sounds, because my parents are old, their eyesight is poor, and they don't understand technology. If I can't get them to turn the Smart Plug back on, then I have to drive all the way over there to do it.
Is there a way to set up the Kasa App so that turning Off this one particular Smart Plug requires at least two clicks, so I don't do it accidentally?
I tried setting up two different Rooms, and putting this one Smart Plug in another Room, but the Kasa app launches by default with All Devices showing.
Hi! Thanks for replying. The problematic Smart Plugs control my edge routers, so if they're off, there is no cloud 
. So I definitely have to be super careful about turning them off only when I've already programmed a time for them to turn back on; otherwise I'm driving.
Adding a Home seems like a good solution. Do I need to delete and add the Smart Plugs to the new Home? I don't seem to be able to move a device from one Home to another Home.
On a related note, I would like to request a feature to "bounce" a device, e.g. turn it off, wait X seconds, and then turn it on again, with a single operation. This would be safer than my current method of programming an On time and then turning the device off manually.