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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/FilterUrCoffee on 2024-10-02 15:45:23+00:00.

I setup up Home Assistant the other day for the first time, adding in everything I could including my Unifi router. I didn’t think much of it when it was trying to add devices that I already had in there, other than thinking how cool that was that it was able to discover things on my IOT network easily using this.

Fast forward to yesterday, I was setting up a dashboard just for the lights and as I went through my smart lights I saw one labeled livingroom lamp 2 that had a lightbulb icon but I also saw a livingroom lamp 2 with a plug icon. Weird I thought. I could adjust the brightness and the white level but in my head I was like “I shouldn’t be able to do this with a plug.” I kept messing with it and finally thought “Is there a smart bulb in there?” Look at the top of the lamp, and yes there was! It wasn’t in my Tp-link Kasa account anymore, it wasn’t listed on my Google Home. But Home Assistant found it! I had completely forgotten about this bulb since I moved almost 3 years ago, but now I can use it again and repurpose that smart plug for something else entirely.

Seriously, Home Assistant discovery is truly better than Google Home and Amazon Alexa in my opinion and I’ve used both!