#Hello
rich crater
Any reason for 2 networks here?
I'd usually just stick it all on 1 wifi network. then things can roam fromthe garden to the house easily. And this isn't quite as complicated.
bold copper
even though the SSID's (network name) are different, aren't the devices in the shed still getting IP's from the router in the house? if that's the case you should be able to control them all from a single HA without any extra configuration
they're on the same "network" just connecting via different WiFi access points and SSID's
uneven vine
Yeah - I'm using a mesh network and I don't have anything in the middle of the garden to span the distance at the moment. My mesh system doesn't like having multiple base stations.
I can certainly replace the mesh network with something that removes that annoyance.
bold copper
if you just set the AP in the shed to the same SSID & Password you'll have removed the annoyance
based on your description you don't need 2 HA's as is, your HA install in your house should see the devices in teh shed unless you're doing some sort of weird double natting accidentally
uneven vine
it's quite possible - the only option I had was to set the network up in the shed separately and have it act as a separate access point.
I'll have a dig more into the docs to see what I can do there.
bold copper
either way, since the shed is just an access point for the same network as the access points in the house, you shoudl be able to use a single HA instance with wireless devices on the shed AP or the house AP.
so while it may be more desirable to have the same SSID and even something like Auto-Roaming from a ubiquity level AP it shouldn't keep you from using HA as if everything was connected to the same AP, all pipes lead to the same network as it were.
unless you explicitly set up vlans or something odd, in which case you wouldn't be asking for help i'd wager 😄
uneven vine
Yeah agreed - but the mesh does some extra stuff when it does handovers between base stations.
The issue is that even if they're called the same and even if physical wire is going to the same router, the mesh does it's own thing on top - and the shelly devices are connected to one mesh that believes it's self to be connected to the internet as a master - it doesn't know anything about the other base stations. So I can't ping the shelly devices when I'm connected to the house wifi for example - I can only ping them when I'm connected to the shed wifi.
I'll see what I can do to resolve that with the setup of the mesh and report back