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Konnected connects wired sensors and switches to SmartThings, Home Assistant, Hubitat and OpenHAB
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Doesn't play well with wifi extenders #89

Closed tailg8nj closed 5 years ago

tailg8nj commented 5 years ago

I believe it has to do with device ID strategy.

As seen here, the app will update the corresponding device via dni https://github.com/konnected-io/konnected-security/blob/9966fc5f8985bb203b1220aa9ae6ccad03df3210/src/application.lua#L9

However during discovery, if the NodeMCU is connected to certain extenders, it will be assigned a random MAC address. Yet the application still reports on its hardware MAC.

Is there any way to change the ID strategy so that this isn't an issue?

heythisisnate commented 5 years ago

This is a known issue and is caused by some wifi-extenders that change the device's MAC address when repeating the signal. We do not have plans to change the ID strategy as this is specified by the SSDP discovery protocol that is used for network discovery. There are a few workarounds:

  1. Best option: Don't use WiFi extenders. Use a mesh WiFi network instead to expand wireless coverage.
  2. Turn off the wifi extender during discovery.