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My roomba vacuum cleaner and echo dot won't connect to new RAX45
I have set up my new router and 2 windows computers have connected successfully. But my Roomba vacuum cleaner and Echo Dot won't connect.
BobMinn wrote:
I have set up my new router and 2 windows computers have connected successfully. But my Roomba vacuum cleaner and Echo Dot won't connect.
What does Roomba say? These things often come down to badly written apps from the people who sell these IoT devices. They don't work if the app is connected to a 5 GHz wifi network.
If you cannot force your mobile to connect to 2.4 GHz, one way around this is to
- temporarily disable the router's 5 GHz.
- Tell the mobile to forget the 5 GHz SSID.
- Give it a minute or two to forget the 5 GHz wifi connection
- Connect to 2.4 GHz.
- Do your thing with the IoT device
- Enable the 5 GHz wifi
- Complain to the people who made the IoT gadget