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shinobi
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10 months ago
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Raspberry Pi and smart plugs not showing up?

Hi,

I've just moved house and have jumped at the opportunity to get VM fibre! however, my smart plugs and Raspberry pi are not showing up in my networks? I run Apple homekit using Apple TV 4k and two mini hubs to act as gate routers.  Everything worked fine prior to move and on previous ISP.

VM hub 5 on 1gb connection.

Apple homekit running Meross smart plugs.

Raspberry Pi 4 acting as a headless ADS-b receiver.

 

Thanks in advance,

Shinobi

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    10 months ago

    Are the devices using WiFi or Ethernet cabled? Have the devices got fixed IP addresses on a network other than 192.168.0.0/24? If WiFi the plugs are only 2.4Ghz, from memory you set them up from an app. Have you reset them to their shipped state and tried to install them from scratch. You may have to separate the WiFi bands into two SSIDs as some devices don’t like a combined SSID. I run my ADS-b Pi Ethernet cabled.

  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    Alessandro Volta
    10 months ago

    The hub is not that good you should look at getting a better router with 1Gb ports and put hub in modem mode

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    Very Insightful Person
    10 months ago

    Are the devices using WiFi or Ethernet cabled? Have the devices got fixed IP addresses on a network other than 192.168.0.0/24? If WiFi the plugs are only 2.4Ghz, from memory you set them up from an app. Have you reset them to their shipped state and tried to install them from scratch. You may have to separate the WiFi bands into two SSIDs as some devices don’t like a combined SSID. I run my ADS-b Pi Ethernet cabled.

    • shinobi's avatar
      shinobi
      Joining in
      10 months ago

      Hi, Thanks for your reply!

      They're using wi-fi. I switched off the 5ghz channel as recommended on the flight radar24 help page. I'm unsure of the fixed IP address issue? How would I find that out please?

      I've not tried my RPi with Ethernet yet. I only have a laptop and my receiver is in the loft space.

      Shinobi