Tips and tricks on adding SmartLife 2.4ghz devices on 2.4/5/6 Wi-Fi.

[lament wadi]

Good morning!

I recently changed my home wifi router. This firmware supports smart select band. Unfortunately, this does not work properly when connecting 2.4 devices. Especially the smartlife cheap stuff.

Is there a way, apart from disabeling 5 and 5 and smart select, to connect the devices?

Not really a cheapskate guy but I really don't want to pay more for a temp/hum sensor than I did since it's just not worth it. What i dont spend on this, i spend on hue lighting and stuff that make a difference.

[spark dock]

isn't smart select the thing thats supposed to move your wifi channel around and make your stuff disconnect because "its better"?

just turn that off and set to a fixed channel thats not too populated.

a lot of wifi iot stuff is gunna be 2.4 only

[lament wadi]

Smart Select only determines the best connection method. If i try to connect my phone to 2.4ghz, while it support 6ghz, smart select "senses" this and moves the connection to 6.
That is as far as i know about the smart select.

[spark dock]

that should be sorted out client side. i would definetly be turning that off

its probably guessing if stuff supports for the most part

[drifting storm]

i used the guest network in my router for cloud based wifi devices. i set my guest network to be 2.4 only and switched my phone to that net before starting any pairing.

the guest network in that router can reach the internet but not my main home network. perfect for cloud based devices

[obsidian crow]

Even my multi years old deco S4 has an option to create multiple wifi networks. Create one just for your iot stuff, and make it 2.4ghz only.

[hushed agate]

Have a 2.4 SSID and an 'other' SSID.
Oops, what they said.... (Except guest devices cannot see HA, so Kinda useless if you are running HA and want to see it local)