Has anyone had Tapo RGB bulbs completely tank their Wi-Fi? I put two of them in service yesterday. This morning, my Wi-Fi was almost completely non responsive. After spending the better part of the evening trying to figure it out it dawned on me this was the latest change i made. I un screwed these two bulbs, and everything bounced right back. I have never seen something like that before. Seemed rather odd. But as soon as I unscrewed them everything bounced back. I'm not really sure what else it could be. I don't usually have Wi-Fi devices, but I cant imagine this is a normal thing, is it?
Maybe an IP conflict? Like 2 devices vying for the same IP. I usually set static reservations on my router for smart devices. I've had Tapo devices work without issue
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I though of that. The static reservations are in the .6 - .25 range. these were in the same VLAN, but they were well out of that range. One was .193 and the other was . 235. They were showing a heavy amount of data. As soon as I took them out , things rebounded within about 5 min. I got the Nanoleaf bulbs (which are slowly becoming problematic) working again. Ill probably look at replacing them with Aqara if they colors are similar. That is the main reason I have stuck with the Nanoloeaf, i really like the colors.
Hmm, I've seen smarthome devices do weird things. Was just looking at my PFSense logs, found I have a wyzecam switching between 2 MAC addresses, how is that possible?
Maybe you could try putting back the TAPO bulbs but altering your WiFi channel
Have you considered the Linkind Matter bulbs? They work well on my setup and the colors are pretty good. Reasonably priced as well.
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I have about 10 Tapo L535 matter blubs. Other than oddness of Hubitat Hub reboots losing control for a while after reboots, didn't have any network problems and the Tapo app always works fine.
I have a Orbi 970 mesh solution.
