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Orbi not connecting to Smart Home Devices (wemo, ring, zmodo)
We just bought an ORBI.
House: Townhouse, 3 levels, main modem/router is on middle floor with a satelite in each room.
From mobile phones, ipads, and laptops the connection strength, and spe...
I got it to work with my Orbi without uninstalling wemo apps and resetting the wemo switches by making Orbi SSID and password exactly the same as my previous router. Hope it helps.
Jason4 wrote:
I got it to work with my Orbi without uninstalling wemo apps and resetting the wemo switches by making Orbi SSID and password exactly the same as my previous router. Hope it helps.
This is my consistent pattern. Buy a new router. Give it exactly the same SSID and password as the old one. If something "goes wrong", I just reinstall the old one. When I bought several smart plugs to experiment with, the Belkin Wemo was the most "squirrley" of the lot. Not nearly as easy to connect as the Aukey and TP-Link.