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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Well after a little more than 24 hours, the three bulbs started working with Alexa again. Absolutely nothing, that I can see, changed from last night to today. All apps, skills, firmware, Echo software versions are the same as before.
The only thing the remotely makes sense to me is something wrong with the TP Link/Kasa Alexa skill. Something entirely in the cloud. Though other TP Link/Kasa devices in my home were working fine, there's clearly some sort of external communication between my Alexa account and my TP Link account (otherwise how could I remotely control these devices from any network with Alexa) that was on the fritz.
I hate that there was nothing I could do locally to affect the situation, but I'm happy its working again. This represents the first significant "fail" I've had with controlling Kasa devices with Alexa/Echo.
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This is exactly what I described occasionally happening to two of my TP-Link bulbs in post #4656 above. They rarely stay offline as long as yours though. One occasionally will stay offline for several hours, but not days. The other is usually offline for only a few minutes.
Considering we are dealing with the FW in the bulbs plus the FW in the device using Alexa plus the FW in the device using the Kasa app plus the Alexa app code and the Kasa app code plus the Wi-Fi network plus the internet connection plus the Alexa servers plus the TP-Link servers, well it gets rather complex, and there is a lot of pieces to this Rube Goldberg association that can have issues.
ETA: Probably a good thing the Apollo space crafts used a gillion simple toggle switches. Sometimes simple is better, or at least more reliable. We need to do that "we are not worthy" bow before a statue of the person who invented the simple On/Off switch!
