What do you all think about a repeater or WISP mode device? I have to get an external weather rugged device if I go this route and most of the products I see are not external or are just access points needing hardwired LAN.
Yea Angus.Black - that wavlink model looks pretty good and not crazy expensive. External device too so rugged enough to handle the rain, wind etc. Do you use it as repeater or an extender?
The problem for me is going to be aesthetics. Those are HUGE antennas and people here would freak out on that I think.
This one I think is external capable (weather proof) and only costs $39 and not too aestheticaly intrustive or gaudy.
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El cheapo Chinese Manufacturer I never heard of YooSun. Hope they have no back door eavesdropping over the internet in it.
I have mine set up as a repeater.
Is your garage on the same electrical panel as your condo? Maybe an AC Powerline extender would work better. That just extends your Ethernet so you would still need s cheap Wifi router in the garage.
That’s how I have my detached garage set up.
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Thanks for that info and suggestion. Unfortunately moving the signal into the AC power line would not work since the garage power is on a completely separate AC breaker on metered common property AC building power and NOT on my unit residential power AC breaker circuit. So no way to get the connectivity via multiplexing it onto the AC lines. Good thought though.
I may do that inside the unit some day if I get paranoid about all the WIFI power in unit range extenders buzzing wifi power x2 all over the unit. I’d rather have that signaling down inside the metal conduit AC power wire where there’s some shielding at least until it gets to the repeater/extender unit in the wall jack; where its rebroadcast at 2/5 GHz again. Wonder when they are going to go to some of the higher frequencies used by 5G.
Do you know if its possible at all to get wyze products to network directly over the internet using community cable TV networks with account log ins rather than networking with only private non-routable IP’s on home WIFIs? E.g. an access point connection?
You could do that if you had a hotspot device through your mobile device carrier. The reason you can’t just log into your Smartphone ISP is because you’d still need a device out there providing a WIFI signal that was converted from the ISP mobile signal.
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Great info. Thanks Mark, I guess I was hoping that the Wyz cam or bulb etc. could be set up as its own hot spot to log into ISP network directly with account sign in. Essentially another layer of application above it that would then use its own Wyze local LAN direct internal device “wire” connection.
Gives me a great idea on how to use my ancient Samsung J3 smartphone when I upgrade it - use it as a dedicated access point in the garage tied to my smartphone service provider. I get 4 bars of signal in that garage on that raw connection.
That would work, but you’d be incurring a monthly access cost to go that route. Not exactly the ideal route to go.
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You might be able to use a couple of extenders. TP-Link Tl-WA850RE is under $20 (price comparison I have gotten as low as $16). Place one and see if it enough, if not buy another to extend further.
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If you’re using AT&T, they have dedicated repeaters for $49 (Airties), and if you talk nice to the tech, they’ll give you the first one for free to “test the solution”.
The other option you might want to check into are PowerLine WiFi adapters … i recommend NetGear (for folks who are unfamiliar, they use your home’s electrical wiring)
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I was able to get plenty of range with my home router at medium transmit power. I had it turned down low power to reduce its impact on myself since I sit right there in the same office all day long. I am thinking that I can go back to low power and manually engage medium or high power at the router when I want to trigger it on manually and have some confidence that it and the app won’t get out of sync with the bulb’s on/off status.
Now I am wishing that Wyze had a red-blue emergency kind of light bulb pair that blinks on/off and a custom LED message like “Security Alert”. I’d like to have that to scare off anyone loitering near the area I am monitoring on command or by auto-trigger on motion.
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Good thought but I am sure this would not work in my application since the garage power is on a completely different breaker panel (Condo common property power) than my personal unit metered power circuit where my office router would be located. No copper path to get there.
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I am using the NETGEAR WiFi Mesh Range Extender AC1200 Dual Band all over the property. it’s connecting every other WYZE devices without issues. even the base for the outside CAMs. but for some reason i can’t get the WYZE Bulb to work. i set up the bulb in the house where it can see the WAP but will not work with the range extender with the same SIDD on 2.4 with the same password and under the WPA2 PSK. the extender is showing 90% so why is are all the cameras, power outlets. motions sensors working but the bulb will not…