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WiFi
Homey won't reconnect to WiFi on small WiFi changes of Unifi Uquibity AP's
Spikey
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Hi All,
I have an interesting issues when I fiddle even for a bit with my Unifi Uquibity managed AP's (3 AP's, one per floor) Homey loses connection and doesn't reestablish it again.
Although the setup method mentioned at the "wifi setup" page works fine to get Homey reconnected. It becomes pretty annoying when you have to repeat the setup method every single time I play even a little with the settings of my AP's (e.g. changing transmit power or channel setup). The SSID or password and such are unchanged. Every other device in my household is capable of reconnecting or even staying connected.
The most funny part is that after changing these settings in the AP's.Homey is gone from the network (not connected to the wifi anymore), however when I reboot all AP's at once, Homey is able to automatically reconnect, but is gone after about 5 minutes again! At that point I have to redo the setup procedure above to get it fully connected for a longer period.
Personally I have a feeling it might have to do with the wifi reflections and therefor possible bad quality of the wifi signal, but that still doesn't explain the reason Homey is not able to reconnect after reboot (PtP), or, the more funny situation, is not capable of stay connected after a reboot of the AP's. It doesn't even seem to retry (based on logs of Unifi manager).
I would like to think it is AP related instead of Homey, however I'm having a hard time believing it, when Homey is the only device failing to reconnect and I also have to re-setup Homey every single time I try some other setting/solution on the AP's
Is anyone else experiencing similar issues? Is there anything I can do about this or is this a bug?
I have an interesting issues when I fiddle even for a bit with my Unifi Uquibity managed AP's (3 AP's, one per floor) Homey loses connection and doesn't reestablish it again.
Although the setup method mentioned at the "wifi setup" page works fine to get Homey reconnected. It becomes pretty annoying when you have to repeat the setup method every single time I play even a little with the settings of my AP's (e.g. changing transmit power or channel setup). The SSID or password and such are unchanged. Every other device in my household is capable of reconnecting or even staying connected.
The most funny part is that after changing these settings in the AP's.Homey is gone from the network (not connected to the wifi anymore), however when I reboot all AP's at once, Homey is able to automatically reconnect, but is gone after about 5 minutes again! At that point I have to redo the setup procedure above to get it fully connected for a longer period.
Personally I have a feeling it might have to do with the wifi reflections and therefor possible bad quality of the wifi signal, but that still doesn't explain the reason Homey is not able to reconnect after reboot (PtP), or, the more funny situation, is not capable of stay connected after a reboot of the AP's. It doesn't even seem to retry (based on logs of Unifi manager).
I would like to think it is AP related instead of Homey, however I'm having a hard time believing it, when Homey is the only device failing to reconnect and I also have to re-setup Homey every single time I try some other setting/solution on the AP's
Is anyone else experiencing similar issues? Is there anything I can do about this or is this a bug?
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I don't had problems with Homey disconnecting but my wife's (cheap) tablet had wifi issues. I'm now on version 3.9.27.8537 and have no problems but some users on the Unifi forum still have disconnect issues with version 3.9.27.x
You could test with firmware version 3.9.21.8191
Thank you in advance for the tip.
Have you enabled "Block LAN to WLAN Multicast and broadcast data" in your wireless network settings? I've read that this also could cause some troubles. This is only enabled on my guest network (disabled on private wifi network)
Mine is "TexasIns" (Short for Texas Instruments??).
I had disconnecting problems with manufacturer "Shenzhen"... China stuff (Medion tablet from Aldi)
A colleague at work also had the same issues with a smartphone from.... Shenzhen.
Don't know which one that is.
I'll have a test tomorrow with the latest firmware again and the option "Block LAN to WLAN Multicast and broadcast data"enabled, since I've never touched it and therefor was still disabled. It sounds worthwhile to test. Alternatively I now have a working backup.
I don't think you need to test the "Block LAN..." setting because there could be problem when this setting is enabled... and yours was never enabled.
On the Unifi forum you can find a lot of information about the firmware issues.
After I upgraded back to the 3.9.27 version and enabled "Block LAN to WLAN Multicast and broadcast data", it worked even worse.
It could very well be that this specific chip has issues.
I'll have a look at the unifi Forum, since it is quite annoying. I also noticed one other device had interesting behavior since the upgrade (or basically I noticed it didn't anymore after the downgrade). That device, while being a stationary device like Homey, started to roam between all three AP's every few seconds!. It was already less when the setting for fast roaming was disabled, but I noticed with the old firmware it was working fine even with the fast roaming seting enabled.
In other words, I think Unifi has made a buggy firmware version.