I have 2 hubitat hubs on one physical router node (velop mesh router). All is good. Hub mesh working - no issue.
I recently added a 3rd hub to a different router node in the same mesh router.. initially all routers can see each other. However after a few hours my 3rd hub is not seen by the other 2 and it cannot be “discovered”. It’s also simply “waits” when you try to “check for updates”. However I can access it by IP address and see the normal Hubitat hub menu’s.. If I reboot the 3rd hub, things go back to normal - hub is viewable by the others- but then the issue starts again hours later.
Any ideas. I suspect the issue is having multiple hubs on multiple router nodes….. is it a bug ?
I suspect you’re using wifi to connect the meshed router versus ethernet. I’ve seen others post of issues with connecting over mesh networks, but don’t recall any solutions outside of moving the hub. I have a Velop 10600 setup (wired) and it has been absolutely fantastic, but my hubs (2 Hubitat, 2 Hue bridges, 1 Homebridge) are connected to a couple tp-link ethernet switches wired to the same Velop. You could try giving the 3 hubs priority to see if that makes any difference:
I had all sorts of problems with my Velop meshed network and HE. Actually, I had all sorts of problems with my Velop meshed network period. Most of my issues were related to firmware updates from Linksys and crappy performance from wireless backhaul. I eventually solved them once and for all with a Velopectomy and life is good.
Do you have the option of connecting them all to the same switch? Or are you separating them for operational reasons, like to improve zwave or zigbee coverage? If you can, I'd suggest you connect them all to the same ethernet switch and then connect the switch to one of the Velop nodes.
I originally had the entire house on a single Velop MX5300 and covered the house except for my son’s room which is over the garage. I had run ethernet to his room, so when I bought the second Velop, I just connected it to the ethernet. It has been the most reliable router I have ever used, also the most expensive.
in my case i have a hub in the basement with its own router mesh node, primarily to handle the proximity issue.. really isolated between main floor and basement - many dead zones.
Glad to hear your experience was better than mine. My home was constructed before Ethernet wiring was a thing. Actually it was constructed before wiring was a thing. I finally bit the bullet and worked with my contractor / handyman to run Cat6A everywhere. He had never done data wiring before but he learned how to terminate cable by watching youtube videos! He got very creative about using closets and uncovering things that could be used as raceways. He ran about 2,000 feet of wire, mounted all the APs, etc., and I did all the interconnects and configuration. My throughput increased about 7x, RTL plummeted, and packet loss dropped from horrendous to basically zero. Eveyrthing that could be hard wired is hard wired, leaving wifi just for devices that don't support a wired connection. All the switches are 100% managed. And at the same time I introduced network segmentation to improve security. Really the best thing I ever did. But not an inexpensive project by any means. Probably cost me $10k by the time I was done.
