Change Wifi identify, break every part?! – Automated Residence

I 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 understand {that a} bunch of good residence gadgets require 2.4GHz.

This was information to me and apparently, once we bought the web on in our residence, both the technician requested me if we wish two networks and I stated no, or maybe, he didn’t ask and simply set us up with 5.

Both manner, I got here to study that some good residence gadgets require a 2.4GHz wifi community with a view to join.

I reached out to my ISP and the method was very easy. I believed “job finished” however that was simply the beginning of my pleasure.

What gadgets broke?

Surprisingly, some gadgets went offline, whereas others stayed on and by no means skipped a beat. The listing of gadgets 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 mild bulb
  • Aqara vibration sensor
  • Aqara water leak sensor

As I’m penning this, I feel a cause for the sturdiness of those gadgets is perhaps that my Homey Professional is definitely linked through POE cable and most of those gadgets had been linked with Homey straight, slightly than first pairing with Aqara after which porting into Homey. I feel the Aqara mild bulb may 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 potential resolution to the issue that didn’t find yourself serving to. I believed that if I simply change the identify of the 5GHz community again to what it was earlier than I cut up the community into two and altered the identify, that may magically resolve the problem.

Nope, that didn’t clear up it.

This appears form 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 cause in my thoughts that solely the identify had modified and if I alter the identify again, every part needs to be superb.

Actually, 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 gadgets and reconnecting them. Possibly 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 in a position 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 aspect tangent whereas with regards to that Meross door sensor, however I used to be by no means beforehand capable of get that machine into the Homey ecosystem and I used to be form 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 reside in an unsupported nation.

Someway I used to be capable of pair that machine final time, however this time, I don’t even see the precise machine 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 occurring.

In any occasion, I appear to now have nearly every part again on-line, aside from that door sensor. If that’s the extent of the injury, I can reside with that. Particularly because it was by no means in Homey anyway.

Alexa funk?

There are another form of bizarre issues occurring 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 machine is “on-line”, however I appear to be unable to regulate 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 occurring now.

Extra annoying is that my Sonos soundbar isn’t responding to Alexa voice instructions for the time being, solely my telephone is. That was one in every of my favourite issues about getting a few of these good gadgets 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 every part will return to regular quickly.

Classes discovered

I want somebody had advised me this earlier than I bought began on my good dwelling / good residence journey, but it surely appears extremely necessary to just be sure you have a separate 2.4GHz wifi community in your house earlier than including any gadgets.

If I had identified this earlier than I bought began including gadgets, this complete mess may have been averted.

In case you’re studying this since you’re keen on getting began with some good gadgets in your house, study from my expertise and cut up out your house community earlier than you’re taking step one with a wise machine.

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