Turning off - do you mean the switch loses power? If so, likely a wire is loose in the pigtails and tightening the screw cause it to lose contact. If the switch works before screwing it in place and...

Sounds like it's a 3-way switch. There's no "middle" for single switches controlling the load. If there are multiple switches controlling a load you need to use an HS210 instead of the HS200.

The app is only connected to the TP Link when it's running, so it seems less likely it's app related. Sounds like the firmware might be crashing and restarting - you'd see the LED blinking if so....

You could run AutomationManager (from google play) as a server, it'll run on any low end android device. It can do this with one rule - trigger with "periodic" every 30 minutes, action - set on for 5...

If they all started flashing orange at once it was a network issue (not necessarily a problem, but something was bothering the TP Links). TP Link doesn't update firmware without action on your part...

Flashing orange meant they lost their connection to your wifi - next time it'd be better to figure out why that happened rather than reset them. Sometimes power cycling the router might be enough. To...