Tapo P110

dunstonh

badger09 said:

BooJewels said:

Thank you kindly @badger09 - having lived with my parents until I got married, then being married for almost 40 years, it's the first time I've lived on my own and it is taking some time to adjust.  If you could see the mishap I've just had and the mess I've just made in the kitchen, you'd conclude I'm perhaps not fit to.   

I just reinstalled the app on my tablet and apart from having to sign in again, it just carried on as before - it's not fixed the problems I'm having though - showing yesterdays data as todays.

Oh dear sounds like it’s one of those days. In my quest to reduce energy consumption, I switched off husband’s old Pure Evoke Mio which he leaves plugged in all the time to recharge the battery, whether it needs it or not. Unfortunately the **** thing now won’t work at all, even on mains supply. So I have to source a suitable replacement for garden duty (radio, not husband😊). Probably saved a few pennies at a cost of £70 ish😳. 

Re the Tapo, think I’d better leave well enough alone

We have a Pure radio in the stable block and they are pretty sturdy things.   The donkey has grabbed it several times and thrown it around.   Thankfully, it wasnt the wooden ones but the plastic.  They have very good sound and are known for being low energy users (one of the reasons I chose it for the stable block where it is on 24/7)

wild666

Another 4 Tapo 110's delivered yesterday, that's 6 in total, that's one on each desktop PC, one for the freezer, one for the AV receiver, one for the air fryer and one for charging my mobility scooter. I paid £22.50 for one but less than £9.60 each for the other 5. The one at £22.50 was because I thought I had bought a plug without energy monitoring so the average price for the 6 goes up to £11.74 but still worth it at the price.

badger09

badger09 said:

BooJewels said:

Thank you kindly @badger09 - having lived with my parents until I got married, then being married for almost 40 years, it's the first time I've lived on my own and it is taking some time to adjust.  If you could see the mishap I've just had and the mess I've just made in the kitchen, you'd conclude I'm perhaps not fit to.   

I just reinstalled the app on my tablet and apart from having to sign in again, it just carried on as before - it's not fixed the problems I'm having though - showing yesterdays data as todays.

Oh dear sounds like it’s one of those days. In my quest to reduce energy consumption, I switched off husband’s old Pure Evoke Mio which he leaves plugged in all the time to recharge the battery, whether it needs it or not. Unfortunately the **** thing now won’t work at all, even on mains supply. So I have to source a suitable replacement for garden duty (radio, not husband😊). Probably saved a few pennies at a cost of £70 ish😳. 

Re the Tapo, think I’d better leave well enough alone

UPDATE

Good old Mio has suddenly sprung back into life. Husband thinks it was just a loose connection. Pleased I didn’t order a replacement😅

sandy700

wild666 said:

Another 4 Tapo 110's delivered yesterday, that's 6 in total, that's one on each desktop PC, one for the freezer, one for the AV receiver, one for the air fryer and one for charging my mobility scooter. I paid £22.50 for one but less than £9.60 each for the other 5. The one at £22.50 was because I thought I had bought a plug without energy monitoring so the average price for the 6 goes up to £11.74 but still worth it at the price.

Why do you have one on the freezer, it's not as if you will be switching it off remotely?
Same as the rest of them, once you work out how much each uses there is no further use for them unless you want to switch them off remotely or at specific times.

HumberFlyer

Re:Price per kwh not being able to save
From Support:

 Dear Customer,  Hello and thank you for contacting TP-Link support.

Thanks so much for your valuable feedback.

We have located the problem and urgently repaired it. It’s recommended that you could manually update Tapo App version to 2.10.6 in Apple Store to solve your problem.

If you have additional information or feedback to provide, please feel free to let us know.

Thanks for your understanding and patience! 

BooJewels

@badger09 - good news about the radio - I think it was trying to tell you something.  And I've been tittering about @dunstonh donkey maybe making their feelings known abut the choice of station, or some song they don't like!

Good to hear that they've been responsive @HumberFlyer - I was already taking screengrabs myself to show them the issue I've been experiencing.  Below are 3 screengrabs from my tablet - where I did uninstall and reinstall the app - but my phone hasn't yet been updated, but the screens in this instance are identical.

The Today reading (this is on my freezer) shows 0.241kWh consumption, which is about correct for nearly 12 hours, it has been averaging a smidge over 20 Wh.  All of the data appears to be correct (including the bill), except for the graph with Today's Total at 0.525 kWh - that clearly runs until midnight and should match the Today total above - I believe that was yesterdays data.  



If I scroll to the previous day, it shows this - an incomplete day - and I believe this is the data from Saturday 22nd October when I reset the data at 10:40 am. So it appears to be a day out in the calendar - as this shows as the 23rd.  Yesterday was the 23rd, but that's the data from the 22nd.



Likewise, if I go to the calendar, it shows no data for any day yet this month - but it should show a partial day for 22nd, a full day for 23rd and potentially, a partial day for today - although that might not appear until after midnight.  I would expect that the 22nd and 23rd i the calendar should be turquoise, for using less than 1kWh each day - it averages just over half a kWh.   The total for the month - as in the screens above - still says "There is no data yet".

badger09

@HumbleFlyer

Thanks for pursuing this. I’ve updated Tapo app as suggested, & hey presto, it will now save my per kWh cost. 

It now shows my usage for past 30 days (actually just over 11 since I reset) as 4.189kWh which is about right.  However, it calculates my bill of past 30 days to be £0.07. I wish it was that low. It should in fact be approx £1.50. 

Is it just me?

badger09

It can’t be just me. 

Managed to work out how it’s calculating the Bill of past 30 days figure. It’s actually cost of the headline Today figure. Which of course bears no resemblance to the Todays total above the chart breakdown figure. And neither of those bears any resemblance to the Bill of past 30 days🤯

Back to the drawing board Tapo app please. 

If I could articulate all this clearly enough, I’d send feedback myself. 

@HumbleFlyer
Are you up for it?😊

BooJewels

My price wasn't right @badger09 when I had some pre-firmware-upgrade data mixed with new data. 

So I chose to make a note of all my data to that point, on paper, then reset and start over.  My Bill price, as you can see above, has been correct since that reset on Saturday morning.  It seems that the new data doesn't play nice / combine well with the old data.

BooJewels

I've sent a message to their support with my issues of the dates being askew (much as my post above) - and mentioned that I had to reset on Saturday because the upgrade didn't work well with the existing data - although I didn't further expand on that.  If they come back to me in a timely manner, I'll mention the price issue not applying to old data.