Wifi Issues and Large Collectives

[Rob_L]

I've currently attached my collective to two different Wi-Fi access points. I used to run it on a mesh and a dedicated IOT band, but none of them seemed to be able to maintain constant connectivity; I started getting updates and sync issues that have progressively gotten worse with each device added. Does anyone have a solution for large collectives and system changes? Is there any possibility, Coralvue, of adding a wired ethernet gateway device or function to route the communications over the command bus and out through a physical connection?

Any help will be appreciated,
Regards
Rob L

 

[thom_smith]

Define large? 18 controls and 6 wifi accessories. +/- 250 combined inputs, outputs, third party devices and schedules. Aside from my crappy Spectrum internet which has regularly been experiencing hours long outages every two weeks I don't really have connectivity issues. Have noticed several reboots during the first 15-30 minutes of each outage. So whether I want to or not I have been rebooting not all but probably half of my controls at two week intervals. It is luck of the draw but more often than not my collective master is one of the reboots briefly interrupting my wifi plug and strips. Today 10 controls rebooted during two seperate Spectrum outages. Confirmed local internet outages not local router or wifi outages. Otherwise if my damn internet stays up everything is stable and maintains connectivity.

 

[Rob_L]

Thom,
I long ago banished all Wi-Fi-controlled units as they were messing with other items in my IoT. However, I need to get the Wi-Fi feeder working.
Equipment List
2x Hydros X10,
2x Kraken,
1X Launch
1x Control XP8
3X Wave Engine 2 (2 are active currently - One got sent for repair)
3X Wave Engine LE (Trying to retire these as they cannot withstand the draw without overheating)
1X X4
1X X3
1X x2
1X XS
5X Sole

21 Controllers In total
Enough Sensors, Flow Meters, Temp Probes, Water Level, Multiple ORP, etc too long a list to go through.

(The tank is entirely solar-powered - it's sort of on a design mission to make it to Mars without human intervention)

I pulled out some Wi-Fi equipment and packet tracing stuff. There are a lot of retransmits going on as the devices talk over each other. Any time you push an update out to this many devices, it basically causes a wireless traffic jam. Even splitting them into two dedicated Wi-Fi apps with their own channels (1 and 6) is like watching a packet collision nightmare and the resulting retransmits over Wi-Fi.

Regards,
Rob L

 

[Danny]

I have 15 controllers and have no wifi issues. I to have issues with the internet dropping out but I also have Spectrum. Not a day goes by that I don't have internet issues several times a day. It can cause controller reboots but other than that no issues working. All controllers access the cloud individually from each other even in a collective. So you would have to have a wired connection built into each controller. I don't have 15 ethernet ports on my router to do that anyway.