Why does the Kasa native app keep switching my settings from specified IP to "CLOUD"?

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I have had to go in and manually specify the IP address because the Kasa scanner will find one of my 26 Kasa Smart Plugs and then set the IP to "CLOUD" which then - on SOME of my plugs, does not work anymore. If I manually specify the IP (set with DHCP reservations and never changes) it works 100% of the time.

I finally took the time to go through all 26 devices last weekend to manually specify them all in the Hubitat settings and to my surprise today - they are mostly all back to CLOUD now instead of their set IP addresses. Why would the Hubitat app overwrite my manual settings? How can I stop this from happening?

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Set the credentials to blank in the Integration app. The do an add devices. That should preclude the connection from going back to cloud.

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So what if I were to add more devices in the future to the Kasa app then? Doesn't it need credentials? I'm confused why I would set the credentials to blank?

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No, once the devices are on your Wifi it will find them on the LAN. The Kasa devices can work fully local. There are a few devices or situations where people might need cloud, but otherwise its best to just leave it logged out with no credentials which forces it to use local.