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TL;DR
- Connecting older or cheaper good residence units to your Wi-Fi community could be a headache.
- Some good units can’t see mixed 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks.
- One UI 7 has added a brand new mode for organising 2.4GHz good units.
Samsung’s One UI 7 has many headline options, like splitting the notification and fast settings panel and at last giving us the vertical app drawer we’ve wished for therefore lengthy. It additionally has extra minor quality-of-life adjustments that add as much as one thing extra significant. One such addition is a hidden Wi-Fi characteristic that makes one of the crucial painful components of organising good residence units a breeze.
Many good residence units use 2.4GHz Wi-Fi as an alternative of 5GHz. That is sensible, as 2.4GHz might be extra dependable and has better vary, and your good bulb doesn’t want the upper speeds supplied by 5GHz. Many firms have additionally began to launch units that join straight to Wi-Fi while not having a hub. The difficulty is that a few of the cheaper good residence merchandise don’t work properly with fashionable routers.
Many routers create one community and mechanically swap between 2.4GHz and 5GHz primarily based on the machine’s wants. Some good units, like Tapo good bulbs, are fantastic with this. Different older or cheaper units don’t work properly with mixed networks, although. Energizer bulbs, for instance, can’t see a Wi-Fi community until it’s 2.4GHz solely, which is a matter in case your router can’t break up your Wi-Fi into separate 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks.
One UI 7 has discovered a technique to repair this problem by letting you pressure the provision of a 2.4GHz-only community. To get began, go to the primary Wi-Fi menu in your One UI 7 machine, faucet the three dots on the high proper, and open Clever Wi-Fi. On the backside, faucet the model quantity till the connectivity labs menu seems. Within the labs menu, you’ll discover a toggle known as “connect with 2.4GHz for IOT setup.”
Turning this feature on fixes the difficulty above. Whenever you undergo the setup course of for one thing just like the Energizer bulbs, you employ the Energizer app in your telephone to hyperlink the bulb to your Wi-Fi. With this toggle enabled, your telephone will particularly share the small print of the two.4GHz mode in your router, permitting the bulb to attach with out problem. When you’ve arrange your units, keep in mind to return into the labs menu to show the toggle again off. In any other case, your telephone will likely be caught on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi till you toggle Wi-Fi on and off once more.
As newer good residence merchandise (hopefully) turn out to be smarter, extra of them ought to be capable of do that mechanically, and this characteristic could not be wanted. Till then, Samsung has made a technique to get troublesome good residence units to work with our Wi-Fi, leaving one much less headache for these of us who wish to stay sooner or later with a so-called good residence.
