Doesn’t Kasa phone home to China?

Update: I got my MicroSip soft phone working. But HA doesn’t like to hear me properly. Example: When I ask it to “turn on office light” it works 70% of the time. The “turn off office light” only has worked once. Looks like the system is seeing “officelight” as what is spoken. I’m going to through all the exposed devices and creating one word aliases like “officelight.” I’ll test again soon to see if that improves recognition.

MicroSip setup:

Note: SIP Proxy and Domain IP address are the same, the IP of my Home Assistant.

Now I just have to figure out if I can get my Grandstream IP phone to use something similar.

The directions show how to take a transitional POTS phone and hook it up with a VOIP device. I do want to do that with a fancy looking old phone (but new construction). But with my existing VOIP phone I thought I could skip the conversion device.

It’s all local network with a local assistant in HA. Nothing should be stopping it.

That did the trick.

Mobile apps should have an equivalent. If you’re using a mobile app, let us know which one so people can give specific directions.