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TP-Link Smart Home in Home Assistant

tplink part of Home Assistant since 0.89

Local, polling Set up in the user interface Quality: Platinum

TP-Link Smart Home is an official Home Assistant integration for Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Climate, Fan, Hub, Light, Number, Select, Sensor, Siren, Switch and Vacuum. Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.

Facts about this integration

Compatible with Home Assistant
yes, official integration
Connection
Local, polling – Talks to the device on your own network and asks for changes at regular intervals.
Setup
in the user interface
Kind
Single device
Quality scale
Platinum – The highest level: fully typed, efficient and maintained to every rule of the project.
Installations
74,760 (10.9 % of the installations that share statistics)
Categories
Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Climate, Fan, Hub, Light, Number, Select, Sensor, Siren, Switch, Vacuum
Provides
Binary sensor, Button, Camera, Climate, Diagnostics, Fan, Light, Number, Select, Sensor, Siren, Switch, Vacuum
Found automatically via
Network discovery (DHCP)
Maintained by
@rytilahti, @bdraco, @sdb9696
Python packages
python-kasa[speedups]==0.10.2

Setup

  1. Home Assistant can find this integration on its own: if it is suggested under Settings → Devices & services, confirm it there.
  2. In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
  3. Click "Add integration" and search for TP-Link Smart Home.
  4. Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.

Add to my Home Assistant

The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

Known issues and fixes

54 open issues and 6 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for TP-Link Smart Home in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.8.0.

Open

  • open Reported problem #157047 since November 22, 2025 · 17 reactions · 46 comments · #157047
  • open Reported problem #154300 since October 12, 2025 · 11 reactions · 71 comments · #154300
  • open Reported problem #156926 since November 20, 2025 · 10 reactions · 30 comments · #156926
  • open Reported problem #169520 since April 29, 2026 · 10 reactions · 22 comments · #169520
  • open Reported problem #138982 since February 21, 2025 · 8 reactions · 35 comments · #138982
  • open Reported problem #160406 since January 7, 2026 · 7 reactions · 46 comments · #160406
  • open Reported problem #162498 since February 7, 2026 · 7 reactions · 30 comments · #162498
  • open Reported problem #164777 since March 4, 2026 · 6 reactions · 75 comments · #164777

Fixed

Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 13, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.

Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →

Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration

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