Kasa Smart Plug & Google Home (What You Need To Know?)

The purpose of adding a smart plug is to be able to turn on and off your home appliances like your fans, lamps, ACs, and many more remotely from your mobile phone and set a schedule to turn them on and off automatically, this device also allows you to reduce power consumption.

Kasa smart plugs are produced by TP-Link company and it is one of the best-known plugs in the market as they offer too many features like “Run-Time & Usage” an option that gives you the possibility to View run times to track usage and cut down on energy consumption, “Away Mode” will add security by automatically turn on and off connected appliances, like lamps, to make it appear as if you’re home.

This plug provides much more features to add convenience to your smart home and people are asking if it works with Google Home?

The Kasa Smart plug can work perfectly with Google Home devices like “Nest Hub”, “Nest Audio”, “Google Home Mini”, without forgetting your Android mobile and tablet, this integration will allow you to control your plugs remotely via your voice or from the “Google Home App”.

This blog post will show us the advantages of this integration and the steps to take in order to connect your Kasa plugs with Google Home and what are the major voice commands you need to know to control your appliances.

How to connect Kasa smart plug to Google Home?

In order to connect the Kasa plug to Google Home, you need to ensure that your Google Home speaker or display is already set up and your plug has been successfully configured on the Kasa app.

Important 1: The Kasa Smart plug will connect to Google Home devices without a Hub.

Important 2: If you’re using a plug that comes with a Wifi range extender like “RE270K” or “RE370K” you need to enable the remote control function manually.

Here’s how to enable Remote Control on Kasa App for the RE270K/RE370K:

1. Make sure the plug is configured successfully on the Kasa app.
2. Connect your phone to the RE270K/RE370K’s Wi-Fi name.
3. Launch the Kasa app on your smartphone or tablet.
4. Find the Wi-Fi extender, then select the desired device.
5. Tap on the gear icon at the top right corner of the screen.
6. Click on the Remote Control Slider and make sure you see the ‘Green” color.
7. Now the remote control option is enabled.

Note: I invite you to read this guide If you’re facing issues with the Kasa mobile app

After that you need to implement the instructions below to integrate the Kasa plug with Google Home:

1. Open and log in to the Google Home app on your mobile or tablet.
2. In the Home screen tap the “+” icon.
3. Then select “Set up device”.
4. Another screen will appear, choose “Works with Google”.
5. On the search bar search for Kasa, then choose “TP-Link Kasa”.
6. login to your Kasa account with the same email and password and tap “Authorize”.
7. Select your Kasa plug, then click on Next.
8. Choose a home and room for the smart plug, then all have done.
9. Back to the Home screen to find your plug.

Receiving notification from the Kasa plug to your Google Home device requires you to deactivate the Do Not Disturb mode, and here’s how to do it:

1. Ensure that your smartphone is linked to the same account as your speaker or display.
2. Open the Google Home app.
3. Select your speaker or display.
4. Go to Settings and choose Notifications & digital wellbeing, then Do not disturb.
5. Turn Do not disturb off.

Google Home voice commands to use with your Kasa Smart Plug.

Integrating the Kasa plug with Google Home is generally for people who want to control their appliances through their voice so you have to know the voice commands needed to manage your plug remotely.

1. first, say the wake word to your Google voice assistant.
   • “Okay Google”.
   • “Hey Google”.
   • “Google”.
2. Then state your Command:
   • Turn OFF.
   • Turn ON.
3. State your Kasa plug Name:
   • Name of the plug.
   • “Everything” to control all connected devices.

Example: “Okay Google, turn ON Office Plug”.

You can also take a look at this blog post if your Kasa plug isn’t responding to Google Home commands.

How to Rename your Kasa Smart plug on the Google Home app?

Changing your smart plug name is necessary when your voice assistant has trouble hearing the device name or when you use the same name on two plug.

here are the steps to follow to change the plug name:

1. Launch the Google Home app on your Android device.
2. Select the Kasa plug you want to edit.
3. At the top right corner, tap Settings.
4. Then Device information and then Device name.
5. Enter a new name and tap Save.

Benefits of Google Home and Kasa plug integration.

This combination will be a great benefit for people who want to turn ON and OFF home appliances such as their fans, bulbs, TVs, Air conditioners, microwave via their smart speaker or display using simple voice commands, Also those who find some difficulties when managing the plug from the mobile app will find their happiness with Google home devices.

Homeowners who want to build their smart home with gadgets that are compatible with Google voice assistant will not have an issue when integrating the Kasa Smart plug into the rest of their appliances.

How to Unlink “TP-Link Kasa” from the Google Home app?

Those who tried this combination and find that the voice control feature is not for them or they’re simply switching to another brand or another voice assistant can unlink the “TP-Link Kasa” from the Google Home app by following the next instructions:

1. Open the Google Home app.
2. Tap on the “+” icon at the top left corner.
3. Select Set up a device, then choose “Works with Google”.
4. On the account listed press “TP-Link Kasa” and select Unlink account.
5. A popup message will appear, tap on Unlink.

Now all your Kasa devices are deleted from the Google Home app and if you want to integrate them again you need to follow the steps I showed in the previous sections.

Or you can connect your Kasa devices to other platforms like Samsung SmartThings or Amazon Alexa or HomeKit.

Conclusion.

Pairing your smart home devices with Google Home will add so much convenience and comfort to your home and that’s why many manufacturers are working on their gadgets to make them work with voice commands.