I have a half dozen Tasmota devices (Cloudfree and Athon) with which I am generally quite satisfied. They all talk to HS3 via MQTT hosted by the mcsMQTT plug-in. Recently I extended my home's Wi-Fi coverage by replacing my Linksys router with an eero Pro 6 mesh network (5 identical units).
The eero pro 6 mesh fulfills its primary purpose admirably. I now have excellent Wi-Fi coverage for my smart phone and my notebook computer, throughout the house.
The same is not true, however, for my Tasmota devices. I'm finding that they still work quite well when the nearest eero mesh node is the eero gateway. (The gateway unit is the only one of the five that has a hardwired Ethernet connection to my LAN. It has Ethernet connections to both my nearest LAN switch and my Internet modem.) But if I move them to areas served by any other eero Pro 6 unit, then the Wi-Fi connection becomes problematic, if not impossible.
All my Tasmota devices are 2.4 GHz only. The eero mesh units support both 2.4 and 5.0 GHz connections. I have tried to use their option to inhibit 5 GHz for 10 minutes to establish the 2.4 GHz connections, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.
eero likes to advertise that their flagship eero Pro 6 devices are compatible with "everything," though they confess that they haven't tried everything. They are apparently unwilling to test their system with new customer devices.
Likewise, the Tasmota people list a lot of devices that they have tested, but they don't commit to testing new configurations.
Does anyone have any experience or insight that might suggest a solution to my problem?
The eero pro 6 mesh fulfills its primary purpose admirably. I now have excellent Wi-Fi coverage for my smart phone and my notebook computer, throughout the house.
The same is not true, however, for my Tasmota devices. I'm finding that they still work quite well when the nearest eero mesh node is the eero gateway. (The gateway unit is the only one of the five that has a hardwired Ethernet connection to my LAN. It has Ethernet connections to both my nearest LAN switch and my Internet modem.) But if I move them to areas served by any other eero Pro 6 unit, then the Wi-Fi connection becomes problematic, if not impossible.
All my Tasmota devices are 2.4 GHz only. The eero mesh units support both 2.4 and 5.0 GHz connections. I have tried to use their option to inhibit 5 GHz for 10 minutes to establish the 2.4 GHz connections, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem.
eero likes to advertise that their flagship eero Pro 6 devices are compatible with "everything," though they confess that they haven't tried everything. They are apparently unwilling to test their system with new customer devices.
Likewise, the Tasmota people list a lot of devices that they have tested, but they don't commit to testing new configurations.
Does anyone have any experience or insight that might suggest a solution to my problem?
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