+3 votes
by (160 points)
Hi!  Thanks for adding me.Hi! Thanks for adding me. We have quite a few smart things in our house and I think I'm just smart enough to want them, but not smart enough to know what to do to get them working the way we need to, by not buying what we should. Please be patient with me. So. lots of lutrons lights with a lutron bridge, wiring with many Google assistants. This is working okay, but saying this for later, to see if conflict, being too much. Probably 22 lutrons and about 11 Google assistants. Nest products working with Google. Thermostat Doorbell Smoke Alarm One Alexa in an area for hearing better. Ugh Some automatc blind running of a somfy through ifttt and some off a Hunter Douglas hub? Don't even know if these are hubs. But anyway here's my problem now and why I joined. We bought August Smart locks. So far two. One with a bridge, which after installing only worked with an extension cord with the bridge right next to the lock and the other lock, I wanted to just use my phone and Bluetooth, but it keeps falling off and I keep having to have it repair the problem. We wanted to buy more of these locks, but yikes do we have to buy a bridge for each one? If we got a Smart Thing hub, would we not need these bridges? I'm just trying to use the lock with bluetooth, in in the same room as the lock. Do we have so much stuff in our house, that our bluetooth can't work? So if this is too confusing, basically it's the locks that are my problem now. Want them hopefully working with purchasing one thing to make them wifi and also would like to know why our bluetooth would act like that. Sorry, this is alot to throw at you. Just don't want to make anymore mistake. Thankfully we both love this stuff, but I drive myself nuts trying to get it going. Yet, we don't stop adding .  Oh, plus a security system may be adding to the. too much on the system. PS. Just ordered a wifi extender, hoping it will fix the issue with the bridge having to be so close to the lock.  
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1 Answer

+1 vote
by (810 points)
Get a better network. Extenders dont fix issues for smart homes. They make them worse. Invest in a mesh network
by (160 points)
J. T. Pruitt, thank you. Will have to google mesh network.  
by (810 points)
Eero, unify, google. There’s a lot out there. For smart home those three don’t channel hop
by (110 points)
Not to be contrary, but I just resolved a possibly similar problem without having to replace my router. I added a drapery closer to the living window at the western perimeter of the house and it kept dropping off the wifi which is at the eastern perimeter of the house. I bought a $30 tp-link extender. It took 3 trial placements moving it around between available AC outlets until I found a sweet spot which keeps the drapery closer on line without reducing the reliability of all my other voice-controlled stuff. Now everything is working again.  
by (160 points)
Nate, hey. I'll take all ideas. I know this stuff is all fun and games and not essential to being happy, but we enjoy it. I told a relative a while back, that I was physically not in good shape as far as exercise is concerned. She said, " maybe if you actually get up and turn off your own lights, would be a good start. " I told her, "no. I couldn't do that. "  
by (110 points)
@alternant I tell people that it's just a hobby. Everybody should have a hobby. And it gives me a sense of empowerment!  
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