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Installing my Govee wireless system
I’m trying to set up my new Govee Wireless temperature humidity system in my home so I can monitor temperatures on my iPhone govee system does not work with the 5G connection how do I connect it to th...
Thanks, michaelkenward Netgear support wasn't helpful when I asked how to disable the 5ghz band. I found references ibn the community saying it could be done via the command line, but didn't find directions. I also couldn't find a way to use different passwords or SSIDs for each band.
michaelkenward wrote:
Aredub wrote:If you don't have a 2.4 range extender, maybe you have an old router non-mesh router.
Or, as suggested earlier, simply tell the Mesh system to temporarily stop broadcasting the 5 GHz SSID. That is a well known and widely discussed strategy that has worked for many different IoT devices.
Thanks for reporting back on this one. With luck anyone who turns up here with the same issue will search this place for Govee and will find your solution.
Let's hope that DeckerBob can use one of these strategies.
Aredub wrote:
Thanks, michaelkenward Netgear support wasn't helpful when I asked how to disable the 5ghz band. I found references ibn the community saying it could be done via the command line, but didn't find directions. I also couldn't find a way to use different passwords or SSIDs for each band.
The idea is not to disable 5 GHz but to stop the SSID from being broadcast. In that way, wifi clients used to set up IoT devices will not see the 5 GHz wifi and will connect to at 2.4 GHz. (You may have to tell the wifi client to forget that it knew the 5 GHz SSID or it can connect even if it cannot see it.)
There is nothing tricky about doing that. No telnet or command line moves. It is simply a case of temporarily switching it off the 5 GHz SSID in the browser graphical user interface.
People have also had success by turning down the power from the 5 GHz wifi on the basis that their wifi clients will then prefer the 2.4 GHz band.
This is all very straightforward and has bailed out many people who are grappling with poorly designed IoT set up software. Only purists and propeller heads insist on separating 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, even though it actually breaks the fundamental design mesh concept of Orbi systems.