Change Wifi name, break everything?! Leave a comment

I not too long ago realized that I wanted to separate out my house 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 comprehend {that a} bunch of sensible house units require 2.4GHz.

This was information to me and apparently, once we acquired the web on in our house, both the technician requested me if we would like 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 sensible house units require a 2.4GHz wifi community with the intention to join.

I reached out to my ISP and the method was very easy. I assumed “job accomplished” 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 listing 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 penning this, I feel a cause for the sturdiness of those units is likely to be that my Homey Professional is definitely linked by way of POE cable and most of those units had been linked with Homey straight, moderately than first pairing with Aqara after which porting into Homey. I feel the Aqara gentle bulb may need been an exception.

Anyway, the purpose is that numerous stuff broke, however some issues didn’t break, which is sweet.

Simply change it again?

I thought of a doable resolution to the issue that didn’t find yourself serving to. I assumed that if I simply change the title of the 5GHz community again to what it was earlier than I break up the community into two and adjusted the title, which may magically resolve the difficulty.

Nope, that didn’t remedy it.

This appears type 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 title had modified and if I modify the title again, every little thing must be advantageous.

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 few of the units and reconnecting them. Possibly I used to be being a bit dramatic in my video (above) and it’s not truly such an enormous downside. 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 easy methods to reset the Meross door sensor. I managed to get the accompanying hub to flash inexperienced and amber, which I assume signifies that it’s in pairing mode, however I couldn’t add it again into the Aqara app.

Little bit of a facet tangent whereas with reference 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 type 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 positive I dwell in an unsupported nation.

By some means 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 strive to hook up with within the Aqara app, so I don’t know whether it is as a result of I’m in an unsupported nation or possibly there’s one thing else occurring.

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

Alexa funk?

There are another type of bizarre issues occurring now although. Alexa is certainly one 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 exhibiting “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 cellphone is. That was certainly one of my favourite issues about getting a few of these sensible units in my house, 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 little thing will return to regular quickly.

Classes realized

I want somebody had advised me this earlier than I acquired began on my sensible dwelling / sensible house 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 units.

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

In the event you’re studying this since you’re serious about getting began with some sensible units in your house, study from my expertise and break up out your own home community earlier than you are taking step one with a wise machine.

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