Hello,
this is my first post and I have a question/problem.
I have 2 homes with smart devices and many Tapo devices connect to home A and home B (these homes are created to separate).
Tapo - 2 homes created (home A & home B)
Smartthings apk - 2 homes created (home A & home B)
Problem:
I can’t attach Tapo devices to only one specific home.
If I link Tapo to Home A (in smartthings apk), it adds ALL Tapo devices to that home (devices from both Home A and Home B).
The home property for the devices in smartthing apk is then named as home A, regardless that in Tapo the homes are separated as/belong to home A and home B.
I have tried to move devices to Home B, but that option in Edit is greyed out (only “Change room” is possible).
I tried to work around this and also linked Tapo with Home B → it then added all Tapo devices there as well and renamed the home property to home B (in smartthings) for all devices.
After that, I deleted the devices that belonged to “Home A”, so only Home B devices were visible.
After a while, the devices from Home A reappeared in Home B (in “Room not specified”).
I have no problem with this in Google Home.
Question:
Is there any way to get Tapo devices into the correct home?
It would probably require Home A and Home B in Tapo to be administered by separate users that only have access to the devices in one of the homes. That way one can be connected to Location ‘Home A’ and one to Location ‘Home B’ in SmartThings. I don’t know if Tapo has the idea of shared user access to make this work elegantly.
The issue is really that SmartThings was built around Locations rather than users. The integration is with a specific Location.
In Google Home the integration is with a Google user. The user can assign them to Homes as desired.
This is a problem with most 3rd party c2c apps connected to SmartThings. You need to separate Tapo accounts, one for each location. Then you can link them as you desire.
To manage my devices across three different houses (using apps like Tuya, Smartlife, Tapo, etc.), I had to implement a specific solution because the standard method presented problems.
My Solution: I was forced to create individual accounts on the third-party apps for each house and also to create two separate accounts in SmartThings (ST). The third-party devices are then shared with these separate ST accounts. To manage all the ST accounts in one place, I used the restricted sharing feature between them within the main application.
This configuration works well, ensuring proper management but without full access between the accounts, which helps maintain organization.
Thanks everyone for your answers.
Luckily I’m not completely dependent on the SmartThings apk, but it has some nice features that Google Home and Alexa lack (especially more advanced scheduling for automation).
2 accounts is not an option for me, doesn’t seem very user-friendly and to manage 2 email addresses… I hope SmartThings introduces changes for Home in the future.