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The other day my WiFi network went down and with it, I lost access to my Zigbee network?* Is this normal or is this a sign of a massive issue?

*When I checked the Raspberry Pi running Home Assistant, all devices showed as unavailable.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There was a fault in the neighbourhood and Virgin make it so when their routers lose connection to the web, they kill all connections. It's annoying!

[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How does your home assistant get zigbee ?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Directly plugged into a raspberry pi I suppose ?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by extension cable ?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kuinox@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

How did you setup your home assistant ? Check if you somehow the container traffic doesn't route through your ISP box for some reason :p

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like, if a neighbor's Internet loses connection, yours goes down?

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So if my internet goes down because there's an area fault, I can't, for example, scream movies from my NAS, because the router just refuses all connections. It's infuriating. Especially as the local Internet drops constantly due Virgin selling over capacity.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it worth it to double-NAT, and run a router between your internal network and their internet box? Then your router is doing the internal routing and possibly DNS too. It’s not perfect, but it might be worth it if the internet drops that much.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 9 months ago

This is my plan. I'm gonna get a NanoPi to do the routing.