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New Orbi Router Now Google Home Can't see Hue or Chromcast
I purchased a new Netgear Orbi router to replace an old Cisco and now I've lost some hue and chromcast functionality that used to work. My Google home is picking up wifi and works but when I try to control my hue it can't find the hue hub or bulbs. I can control the hue hub with the seperate hue app but google home no longer sees it and so I can't add any hue light devices in the Google home app. Tied resetting hub several times, no luck. Also, I used to be able to tell google home to cast a show on Netflix to my TV and it would work fine, turn on the TV and play. Now when I try to have google home cast to my chromcast it just says can't find tv. The chromcast is working and has a wifi connection and when I view it on the TV it looks good. I just can't use google home to have it play movies or music to it any longer. I can cast to my TV from Netflix and youtube with their apps and that still works. I tried turning off the 5ghz band on the router, still didn't work. Also tried it with one orbi without the second unit, no luck either. Orbi is in router mode and not setup as an access point. Everything else works really well with the Orbi and it's super fast with great wifi coverage. Windows 7 Android Phone Orbi Firmware V1.4.0.34 Any feedback would be appreciated. Thx