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Nest Protect (battery-only version) will not stay connected
I had many of the same issue, including the IoT network on for no reason I could see. To fix that, I toggled it on, saved, and then toggled it back off. It hasn’t reappeared. My biggest nuisance r...
Thank you for the replies. I haven’t tried connecting to the IoT network only, and it does seem curious only this one device has trouble, even when brought in next to my RBS. The battery Nests Protect doesn’t stay connected to Wi-Fi 100% of the time like the wired ones do to protect the batteries. They do check in about once a day. Unfortunately, the battery one never manages to reconnect for whatever reason. It’s on my main, mixed WPA2/3 network.
BullMoon does yours connect to your main network or the IoT network? Any particular settings there you changed? 2.4Ghz or both 2.4Ghz+5Ghz? Thank you both.
BullMoon does yours connect to your main network or the IoT network? Any particular settings there you changed? 2.4Ghz or both 2.4Ghz+5Ghz? Thank you both.
As an update. I took the batteries out and brought it upstairs next to the RBR, put the batteries back in, reconnecting it to Wi-Fi. 24 hours later it successfully checked back in onto Wi-Fi. Hmmm. So it seems to like connecting to the RBR but not the RBS. Any idea why that would be?