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Even if I "hide" the 5ghz, and "forget" the SSID on my android phone
These steps will not work for me for some reason. Even if I "hide" the 5ghz, and "forget" the SSID on my android phone, when it then shows the available networks, it is still a 5ghz network. I also...
Are you able to discover the Mitsubishi adapter via bluetooth?
OMG. Really??? Smartphone apps that use Bluetooth to set up the IoT device are generally not affected by the "2.4G Dilemma". The situation exists because while the vast majority of smartphone apps for IoT devices are well-written, there are some apps that go out of their way to fail. either
- They detect that the smartphone is connected to WiFi at 5G and simply refuse to continue, or
- They try to be helpful and communicate the MAC address of the 5G WiFi access point to the IoT device, which cannot find it because it has only a 2.4G radio capability.
All the "workarounds" for these defective apps are attempts to compensate for poorly written apps.
I forgot to ask the obvious question: "how is the smartphone app failing?" or, have you even tried the app?