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Wifi 6 (892.12ax) is interesting because it seems, the more of its useful features you turn on, the more 2.4GHz-only WiFi 4 (892.11n) cheap shit just breaks.

So I’m maintaining a separate 802.11n SSID on the same gear just for said cheap shit.

Cheap shit that breaks on WiFi 6 seems to include:

Princess dehumidifier (cloud only, but it seems they all are, so they’ll likely eventually brick it)

Daikin AC units (local control without cloud, thank fuck)

Legrand Netatmo zigbee hub (again local control, thankfully, but dear god its WiFi support is flakey and power cycling if involves using the fuse box)

iRobot Roomba i3

Seriously, this shit all has the cheapest nastiest buggy cheap junk WiFi implementation and they should be ashamed.

Also, I wish the EU would get round to banning cloud-only appliances. You just know they’re gonna turn the cloud services off years before the useful end of the device, basically bricking it. Local API or GTFO.

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4somecurious
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local API with no proprietary app (no client certificates to communicate with the appliances). Combined with easy-to-manage (for non-technical people) home gateway firewall, to allow/prevent Internet access.
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Sarah Brown
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@4somecurious Yeah. I use cheap TP-Link cameras at home, but have to rely on a firewall rule in my OpenWRT router to stop thew bloody things phoning home with pictures of my tits.
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Sarah Brown
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@4somecurious They get a few minutes in the middle of the night each day to synchronise their clocks, and that's it.
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