I just lately realized that I wanted to separate out my residence wifi community into two networks, a 2.4GHz community and a 5GHz community.
The explanation for that’s that beforehand I solely had one community that was 5GHz, however I got here to appreciate {that a} bunch of good residence units require 2.4GHz.
This was information to me and apparently, once we obtained the web on in our residence, both the technician requested me if we wish two networks and I mentioned no, or maybe, he didn’t ask and simply set us up with 5.
Both means, I got here to study that some good residence units require a 2.4GHz wifi community in an effort to join.
I reached out to my ISP and the method was very easy. I believed “job completed” however that was simply the beginning of my pleasure.
What units broke?
Unusually, some units went offline, whereas others stayed on and by no means skipped a beat. The record of units that went offline was:
- Inkbird temperature and humidity sensor
- Meross door sensor
- Sonos Arc and sub
- Our HP printer
Gadgets that didn’t go offline:
- Homey Professional
- Aqara gentle bulb
- Aqara vibration sensor
- Aqara water leak sensor
As I’m scripting this, I believe a purpose for the sturdiness of those units may be that my Homey Professional is definitely linked by way of POE cable and most of those units have been linked with Homey straight, quite than first pairing with Aqara after which porting into Homey. I believe the Aqara gentle bulb might need been an exception.
Anyway, the purpose is that a number of stuff broke, however some issues didn’t break, which is good.
Simply change it again?
I thought of a doable answer to the issue that didn’t find yourself serving to. I believed that if I simply change the title of the 5GHz community again to what it was earlier than I cut up the community into two and adjusted the title, which may magically resolve the problem.
Nope, that didn’t remedy it.
This appears sort of unusual to me as a result of, so far as I do know, I simply created an extra 2.4GHz community however didn’t truly create a brand new 5GHz community. So it stood to purpose in my thoughts that solely the title had modified and if I alter the title again, all the things ought to be high quality.
Truthfully, I wasn’t too optimistic about that concept fixing issues and I turned out to be proper to be skeptical!
What subsequent?
I’ve already gotten began with resetting a number of the units and reconnecting them. Perhaps I used to be being a bit dramatic in my video (above) and it’s not truly such an enormous drawback. It’s simply not one thing that I used to be conscious may occur or was prepared for.
I’ve already reset and reconnected:
- Inkbird temp & humidity sensor
- The printer (that took a very long time to determine!)
- The Sonos Arc and sub
However I wasn’t ready to determine how one can reset the Meross door sensor. I managed to get the accompanying hub to flash inexperienced and amber, which I assume implies that it’s in pairing mode, however I couldn’t add it again into the Aqara app.
Little bit of a facet tangent whereas as regards to that Meross door sensor, however I used to be by no means beforehand capable of get that system into the Homey ecosystem and I used to be sort of stunned that I used to be capable of join it within the Aqara app the primary time as a result of I’m fairly certain I dwell in an unsupported nation.
Someway I used to be capable of pair that system final time, however this time, I don’t even see the precise system as an choice to attempt to connect with within the Aqara app, so I don’t know whether it is as a result of I’m in an unsupported nation or perhaps there’s one thing else happening.
In any occasion, I appear to now have nearly all the things again on-line, apart from that door sensor. If that’s the extent of the harm, I can dwell with that. Particularly because it was by no means in Homey anyway.
Alexa funk?
There are another sort of bizarre issues taking place now although. Alexa is one in every of them.
After reconnecting my sub and soundbar, I can management them completely in each the Sonos app and in addition within the Homey app.
In Alexa, I can see that the system is “on-line”, however I appear to be unable to manage it in Alexa in any respect. Beforehand, once I was having some points with Alexa, the soundbar can be intermittently displaying “on-line” and “offline” within the Alexa app, however that doesn’t appear to be taking place now.
Extra annoying is that my Sonos soundbar isn’t responding to Alexa voice instructions in the meanwhile, solely my telephone is. That was one in every of my favourite issues about getting a few of these good units in my residence, and now that performance appears to be both damaged or on hiatus.
Hopefully, it’s only a case of Alexa being a bit temperamental and all the things will return to regular quickly.
Classes realized
I want somebody had informed me this earlier than I obtained began on my good dwelling / good residence journey, but it surely appears extremely vital to just be sure you have a separate 2.4GHz wifi community in your house earlier than including any units.
If I had identified this earlier than I obtained began including units, this entire mess may have been prevented.
In case you’re studying this since you’re fascinated about getting began with some good units in your house, study from my expertise and cut up out your property community earlier than you’re taking step one with a sensible system.
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