Hello and hopefully someone can help me. Ive ran into a roadblock and could use some help.
I currently have a large amount of space i cover with my 6 routers. See photo. 6 hubs yellow are hardwired, red are wireless connected. All used for wifi and smartthings. My issue im having is with plume being dead to smartthings, ive lost some seriously needed functionality i need. I have no data metering, control of kids devices or content. Its just not working for me.
But having 75 zwave devices (mostly z wave switches) i like the smartthings ecosystem.
Questions,
They say i can delete 5 hubs and disable wifi on the main one (i cant see that as an option now) . Then would i have to set up each hub without wifi is that possible?
I want to switch to another better more powerful router only and use something for smartphone what would you do?
I don’t know of a way to disable Wi-Fi on the hubs at all. The sub-hubs serve as Z-Wave repeaters so turning them off will likely weaken your Z-Wave mesh and you will certainly need to do a Z-Wave repair so that devices that are routing through the sub-hubs discover a new route to the primary.
Frankly, I’d leave all the ST hubs in place to serve as your smart home Z-Wave platform and look to install a new mesh Wi-Fi solution such as Eero for your home networking solution.
Thank you for your suggestion, thats what id been thinking.
My worry is they say to not plug your smartthings routers into another router and i didnt want to create an issue.
I use several of a very similar ST Hub (ET-WV523) - they were formally branded by an european provider called Vodafone - and have succesfully deactivated their WiFi Connection.
They are all hard wired now to my main router from another brand & provider and use only their zigbee and zwave functionality.
Here are some screenshots - in german language though, but I think you can see the deactivated “WLAN / WiFi” function. (red markings)
All I had to do was taping on the Hub symbol (blue marking) on the Hub device tile (in the ST App) and change the settings on the second screenshot.
If all these buildings are on the same power tree, you may want to try bringing wired LAN to the side buildings via Powerline. I’ve had good enough (20~30 Mbit/s) results doing that over that kind of distance.
Make sure you feed LAN into powerline somewhere close to your central fusebox. Modern G.hn works better than older technology. For best results, but unobtainium depending on country, put a DINrail-mounted three-phase G.hn directly into the fusebox. There is only one such device, made by devolo in Germany.
I have mine plugged into my ISP’s router, however it’s set in bridge mode. Not sure if you can change that any longer given the crippled function of the Plume Home Pass app.
Well yes it might - but in my experience, even if it said 1200 on the box and actually only links up at less than 100, it’s still more than good enough for smart home controls and sensors, and if you use an integrated powerline/WiFi-AP unit on the far end, even casual browsing when you’re out in the shed.
