when you first log into the casa app if you have smart devices already attached to your account
you will see them here here you can see i have a smart light bulb and a smart switch the switch i
have changed so that it's called fan as opposed to what i originally had it set for so from the main
screen you can either power on and off the device if you select a particular device in this case
i'm selecting the switch because well the switch is what the review is about you can see a total
summary of runtime for today now keep in mind that this particular tp-link smart plug does not track
the actual wattage or kilowatts used by the device it will track the amount of time that it was on
but not how much power it's used and again from this screen you can power on and off the device
you can change the icon here i'll show you how to do that as well as changing the title
if we come down to where it says 8.8 hours generally i leave this fan
turned on overnight to generate white noise if i click this little arrow over here
it will bring up a summary sheet so run time today currently it has zero hours because it's not on
total run time for today is 8.86 now here you have it over the past seven days for averages daily
averages 8.69 total run time of over 60 hours and in the past 30 days average run time of 8.89 hours
with a total run time of 266 hours so again you would have to do the math if you wanted
to know electrical usage now coming down to the bottom of the page here you have three
separate options that you can do schedule away and timer now if we select schedule you can see
i have no schedules set up but if we push the little button in the upper right you will get
scheduling so you can set a day and time and whether you want the smart plug to turn on or to
turn off now doing it in this particular mode is not going to actually turn the device on and off
you are going to set up a schedule and then you can repeat on whatever days of the week
you want and hit save and when you do it will add it to your schedule area here
now away is very similar it's supposed to mirror you being home so you would set a
start time and an end time and then you could repeat however many days of the week you want
so it's it's very much like those old plugs that you would plug in and turn the dial and say at six
o'clock turn this light on and then at midnight turn turn the light off to simulate you being home
well you can do that through an app now timer is just that you can have the
plug turn itself on or off after a set amount of time so if you want you turn the plug on
and then you set a timer and it turns itself off in 30 minutes to an hour whatever you want and
you would hit start and that would run the timer coming back up to the top of the page
this is where you can actually change a lot of the settings which is right here you click on settings
and here you can see all the settings you have device controls now if you do not have a casa
account and have remote control turned on you cannot turn on and off the smart plug from a
distance you would have to be on the same wi-fi network so make sure that you turn that on and
have an account here is device name if you click on that you can change the name of the device
likewise with the device icon if i click on that i have a plethora of choices that i can choose from
or i can take a picture or use an existing picture that i have on my camera roll coming down here you
have some general settings time zone device time here's some model mac address hardware firmware
signal strength and you can delete the device if you wanted to and that is the tp-link
ui for the plug now there are other things that you can do in the application up here in the upper
right hand corner you can add more tp-link devices here you have smart actions but you need to have a
compatible router i do not so i will not be using smart actions coming back to devices again listing
of all of your devices and then you have scene scene is very unique in that if you have multiple
tp-link devices you can set them up to kind of do a in this case i have a good night i have a light
an led light and the switch and when i press on good night i want my switch
to turn on because i want the fan to turn on to generate white noise and the light to turn
itself off so when i click on this this is what i get here is the setup for the bedroom you can
see that there are two cats hanging on the bed currently over there is the fan and over here
out of frame is a tp-link light bulb now if i press the scene
the light will turn out and the fan will turn itself off so hopefully you'll be able to hear
the fan because the light will turn itself off so if i come over here and click on scene
now i do wish that i could make the amazon echo compatible with that but haven't been
able to figure out how to do that yet if you know let me know in the comments below with scenes
if you wanted to add a new scene or new selection of devices you come up here
press the plus sign and then you have several choices you can use a pre-existing scene which
will give you the title and an idea of what it should do or you can create a custom scene
and what it will do is it will show you all of your tp-link items and then you can select
and have them do different things now if i come back to this scene which i've set up
if i select edit i can change the scene name or the scene behavior which if i select scene
behavior will show you the two items and what it's showing is i want the light off and the tp-link
plug to turn on which in this case is the fan and then you can preview it and if you preview it it
will show you or have those devices do what you are trying to have it do and what i'm going to
say last is the hamburger button over here which takes you to the you know application information
so if you click on my casa it brings you back to that main page that i started with settings
will allow you to check your location time
and then you have firmware now firmware it will run a check on all the tp-link
devices that you have and check if their firmware is up to date now it does not
push notifications of if there is updated firmware so here you can see my smart plug is up to date
but my smart bulb is not now it never informed me that my smart bulb was out of date and needed
to be updated so you will have to come into the firmware there and check that yourself
last but not least you have about and help and that is the casa app in a nutshell
you