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Kajkac / ZTE-MC-Home-assistant-repo

ZTE MC801A, MC888, MC889 Home assistant Custom integration
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Band selection #1

Open MiG-41 opened 3 months ago

MiG-41 commented 3 months ago

I want to ask , how is going with developing Band selection feature ?

Kajkac commented 3 months ago

I will look into it but i know that mc801a series can do band selection one time then you need to factory reset the router which is a bit tricky, on mc888/9 you can do band selection and turn it off, implementation in integration is not that hard but for me its easier trough javascript inside browser if i need it. If you try that then you know what i mean

MiG-41 commented 3 months ago

Case is , that i need to automate it somehow... During night operator switch off some bands ,with morning not comes back automatically , therefore every morning i need to reboot the router (with takes some time without internet) , or do some manual band selection. When i have a possibility to do it via HA i could automate it .

Kajkac commented 3 months ago

My operator do it also, it switches 5g at night and turn it back on at 7am, so i have automation to reboot on 7:01am, switching bands also disconect data for some time so reboot works fine for me, i can try to implement somenthing to se if switching from automatic to 3g and back to automatic band can do the same.

MiG-41 commented 3 months ago

That is even whorse.... My operator don't switch 5G at night ( yet) , however on the nearest tower there is only LTE.... Switching to 5G gives LTE anchor from closer tower , but n41 from further , with results worse DL then LTE... At my case during night stays only B3 , so it is enough i.e. first to set band to B7 , and after 30s switch all bands again , then B7+B3+B1+B8 apear... Havn't try to switch to 3G Only and then back to 4G/3G , simply becouse have no tool for that , from web page first i have to switch off the network ( so then IP is changing ,and disconnecting me , i have to log again.... too complicated). I remember there was some program in chinasse langage , with do it without disconnecting from network. EDIT: So if you think about option to change modes , please also don't forget with mode 4G/3G ( without 5G ) as well ,but best band selection (switching to 3G for a while could lower speed dramatically , also 3G is something with operators succesfully reducing.... I.e. in Poland T-Mobile don't have 3G anymore).

Shariner commented 3 months ago

The operators are so crazy. I need to build an automation to change when I am home from 5G NSA to 5G SA because O2 does not allow port forwarding in 5G SA but on 5G NSA, so when I am home I use a split DNS to connect to all services, when I am leaving I set my HA to 5G NSA for Remote Connection.

because 5G SA has a 30ms better ping than 5G NSA in my case.

why are these operators so crazy about their technology…