Short introduction and utilization scenario:
A TP-Link Tapo Smart Light Bulb is a useful addition to your house, even if you don’t really want or need a smart home, with lots of sensors and hardware appliances.
The devices are good value for money and work over WiFi, without requiring a hub (extra device to control it).
For example, I use it as a programmable light, as my wife cannot sleep if it’s completely dark in our bedroom. I configured the light to “run” at 1% brightness and use with a basic night lamp. I also created an ON/OFF schedule, so my lamp turns on every night at 21:00 and turns off at 07:00 in the work days.
Another useful scenario is to use the Away mode, so that the light bulb turns ON and OFF at random times, when you are not at home.
You can either reset your TP Link Tapo smart light bulb via the Tapo Application, or by using the light switch.
You might need to reset your TP Link Tapo smart light bulb, for example, if you have previously configured it to work on a different network or simply you have forgot the login credentials.
I tested this on my TP-Link L530E smart light bulb multicolor, but the same guide works for other Tapo smart light bulbs as well.
Use the light switch to reset your TP Link Tapo Smart Light Bulb:
If you cannot access the device via the app (maybe it has already been used with an account you don’t have access to), do this:
Use your light switch to turn the device ON and OFF three times. Make a one second pause between each ON/OFF.
When the reset has been successfully done, the smart light bulb will blink three times.
Remove the TP Link Tapo from the Tapo App to reset it:
Open the Tapo app
Click on the Smart Bulb you want to reset
Click the hexagonal icon on the top right corner
Press Remove.
Confirm you want to remove the device.
This is everything, I hope this quick guide helps you reset your TP-Link Tapo Smart Lightbulb.
TP-Link Tapo L530E – Initial setup
Unscrew the old bulb and replace it with the your smart Tapo light bulb.
If everything is fine, the smart light bulb will flash three times telling you that it’s ready to be connected to the Tapo app. If not, reset the device.
Next, you need to create a TP-Link account, if you don’t have one already. This is a very straight forward process, but you need to enable the location permissions, so that the app knows when it’s sunset and sunrise for your timezone.
After you have successfully logged in to your TP-Link account, the next thing you have to do is press the plus button to configure your device.
Select Lights and choose Tapo L530/TL13E.
After you hit Next, the Tapo App will need to connect to the Tapo_Bulb network. Press Connect.
Next, the app will ask you to connect to the network where you want to configure the smart light bulb and will require you to provide the password. For this step, I needed to configure a dedicated 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi network (but you may be lucky enough to not need this).
After this, choose a name for your smart light bulb, assign it to a room and pick an icon.
You’re almost done. What you have to do next is check if there is a firmware upgrade available and after performing the upgrade, configure the time interval when the smart bulb is allowed to update itself.
This is all. Written here, it seems more complicated than it actually is, trust me.
