Sense Detected Previous Set of Kasa EP25 plugs, but not the New Ones

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@expensive.wino,
My take is that there isn’t going to be a “fix” for the new V2.6 EP25’s. There’s nothing broken per se - Kasa moved to a completely new communications protocol and left users that rely on their 10 year old protocol in the dust (no backward compatibility) and didn’t tell users about the change. I would imagine that Sense might support the newish protocol Kasa and others are using, but that would be a completely new integration.

As I mentioned in this post, it’s fairly easy for a user that has a recent Mac computer to pull this utility, to see which devices should be visible to Sense. Ones that don’t show up are either non-compatible (V2.6) or impeded by your networking (maybe they are on another subnet ?).

Using the utility with this command pipe:
/Users/kevin/Library/Python/3.9/bin/kasa discover | grep '^==\|Hardware\|Software'

Gives a very useful inventory of the devices Sense should be able to see for my house. You can see I’m mostly “old school” with my Kasa smart plugs, but there is one of the original EP25’s (Hardware 1.0) in the mix, that works just fine with Sense.

== KP115 Roamer - KP115(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.0.20 Build 221125 Rel.092759
== Furnace Down - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== TP-LINK_Smart Plug_7FE0 - EP25(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.0.6 Build 210928 Rel.185924
== Recirculation Pump - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Traveling HS110 - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Office Always On - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Master Bedroom - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Downstairs - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== HP LaserJet - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Furnace Up - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Front Door Dragon - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Ford  Energi Charger - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Playroom Cluster - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Yamaha - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Kids Bathroom - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Kyle’s PC - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== Washing Machine - HS110(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.2.6 Build 200727 Rel.121701
== TP-LINK_Power Strip_13D9 - HS300(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.0.21 Build 210524 Rel.161309
== TP-LINK_Power Strip_FA05 - HS300(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.0.21 Build 210524 Rel.161309
== TP-LINK_Power Strip_D4F6 - HS300(US) ==
	Hardware:     1.0
	Software:     1.0.21 Build 210524 Rel.161309