Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I’m now almost certain it’s not the switch but the mesh points not being happy. They work over wifi, and have been using wifi up until I recently decided I wanted full speed and switched them to ethernet backbone. It worked fine for a while but broke when I moved things around to add the switch. Unplugging one was enough to restore the connection for everything else.
I will have to have more of a play to work out what went wrong.
It is the same range as my router is allocating. Do they not request an IP from the DHCP server (my router) which should avoid conflicts?
They should try DHCP first, but usually have an option to defer to the static as a fail safe for troubleshooting adopting the devices into the controller etc.
I think the switch is working fine. All quiet for the last 24 hours or so, with the mesh network using wifi only (slower speed because half is used for communicating between the two). I’ll need to find some instructions on how to use the ethernet backbone as plugging in and switching on in the app apparently isn’t enough.
Interesting, i’d have thought that would have been fine too; might have a read on how amplifi works myself - its a Ubiquiti product line i’d kinda forgotten existed.