Node-Red

The TP-Link Tapo L510e dimmable light-bulb can be made to work with node-red by installing the node-red-contrib-tapo-new-api package from the node-red palette menu.

Here is an example flow overview that covers the entire usage of the Tapo dimmable light-bulb:

where:

• the Lights node is a node that uses node-red-contrib-alexa-smart-home and Amazon Alexa in order to operate the bulb conveniently,
• the switch distinguishes messages sent by the Lights node and separates between "brightness", "on" and "off",
• the messages then get passed to the node-red-contrib-tapo-new-api node named actions that is configured to log-in and use the Tapo service to control the bulb

Here is the importable Node-Red flow:

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