My router (TP Link) said it had a firmware update. I’m a responsible adult, so I update my firmware. When I log back in, I get this popup that they’d like to share my clients info.
cool…
Well, TP Link have never been trustworthy. Cheap and trustworthy rarely exist together.
I have the best smart plugs I could acquire - Kasa brand. They’re great adapters, but the moment their API call doesn’t get a response from their servers, they restart themselves every ten minutes. We all have to make some sacrifices in the journey to net security and independence, and keeping their API unblocked is one of mine.
If anyone wants smart plugs for monitoring purposes the Kasa brand is operable without the TP-Link app. Tapo is far worse. Never go full Tapo.
I have kasa switches and everything is blocked on my firewall so they can’t phone home.
Overall they function fine. But I have 1 pesky switch that is constantly in a disconnected state (red light) no matter what I do. Every time I reconnect it it disconnects not too long later. It functions fine though, possibly because its a 3 way and the paired switch is fine.
I have another set of 3 way switches that have disconnected a few times but reconnecting them works just fine for a long while (years).
So my questions are, that pesky red light switch sounds kind of like your situation. When you say they reset themselves, do the lights go red?
Secondly, yours reset every 10 minutes? Most of mine seem fine. I’m not sure what’s different between our setups.
I haven’t seen the lights go red, only off, then orange, then green if they were already on.
Of my KP105 and KP115 plugs, only one has misbehaved, only once when their server was unreachable. The main culprit is the Kasa 303 I think it’s called? The 3-outlet adapter.
They are great devices! But I’m waiting for a Zigbee or Matter alternative with energy monitoring so these can be swapped out
Gotcha. So with a few exceptions they overall seem perform well across the board.
Once upon a time I dreamed of switching them all out for something better, and was actually looking forward to Tapo with matter support.
But for my uses I’m basically pulling the plug. My switches are smart enough. I can do schedules, profiles, and control with the app.
I don’t need more than that and there’s not really a privacy focused option as far as I know. Blocking internet is my solution to keep things contained.
Yup, bought a bunch of TP-Link mesh towers. Turns out that they take down the whole WiFi when the main node looses internet connection. That’s just not acceptable, I might have an unstable internet connection but still want access to my local devices, such as my streaming server or router.
On that node, does anyone know of a brand of mesh towers that can survive unstable/no internet connections and don’t use custom firmware? DD-WRT works just fine, but I’m not gonna flash custom firmware onto friends’ devices.
Wouldn’t you be helping them?
Kasa is owned by TP Link
We won’t save your private information. But the third party services - some of which are owned by the same parent company as us - absolutely will.
We won’t save it, but we will pass it along to whoever gives us money.
Maybe Later
I hate it here
shares it anyway
Rapist’s mentality.
Any chance of something like OpenWrt?
…a third-party services…
Now, what is it, one or many!?
Yes
Yes!
What router do you have? I have the TP-Link Omada ER7212 and am not seeing this on the latest firmware
Archer AX11000
I doubt something like this will spillover to the professional line of products. We should be clear for a while with Omada.
Slap OpenWRT on that little trojan horse.
One of two things happened:
- They implemented it just now, and it’s nice of them to ask Or:
- They’ve been doing it for years, and now legal told them they need to ask
It’s always #2
Maybe later
Fuck off to hell with this shit
It’s the rapist mentality, they won’t accept “no” as an answer.
Time to learn how to set up OPNsense.
Or in my case, pFsense, but yeah…that’s the way.
My router (WiFi v.6) has an inbuild Firewall
Well, thats a shame. I have always preferred TP-Link due to their pricing and freedom of software/smart home integrations. This definitely puts a damper on that.
Cooool. Anyone know how to deaden this behavior?
Don’t use their software, use something like openwrt
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tp link routers tend to run openwrt pretty well.
Of course, I have the TP-Link router that isn’t well-supported 😖
I kind of miss my old Linksys routers, which officially supported third-party firmware.
I am a fan of gl.inet stuff, they come with [a customized version of] OpenWRT preinstalled. I’m a industrial tech and I’ve used a couple of their products as hotspots when working on machines for years, I’ve even connected multiple together to work on 2-3 production lines on different subnets at the same time.
Very cool. Thanks for the recommendation.
Asus and Merlin forever
