briis / hass-weatherflow2mqtt

WeatherFlow to MQTT for Home Assistant. Use UDP to get local weather data in to Home Assistant using MQTT Discovery
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Adding documentation regarding VLAN and subnet incompatibility. #216

Closed josephquigley closed 1 year ago

josephquigley commented 1 year ago

I spent an absurd amount of time trying to diagnose why WeatherFlow2MQTT could not connect to my base station either through discovery or manually setting the WeatherFlow host directly.

In order to save future users time, I've added notes to both the README and the DOC regarding VLANs and subnets to assist with troubleshooting.

josephquigley commented 1 year ago

I do not have the networking know-how to get UDP broadcasts to travel across the subnet/VLAN but pointing out that this is the cause may help point those with advanced knowledge in the right direction.

briis commented 1 year ago

Thanks. Good idea to get this documented.