I have a Tuya based light-bulb that looses network connection after some days. The light bulb and HA is in a remote location (at my fathers house) and it’s important that it works. When it goes offline it never comes back.
To make it more secure I have started testing with an equal light bulb back home and can see that it’s not that stable. To increase stability I added a static IP, disable power save mode and used fast connect. I also changed the time intervals for ap timeout to 10 minutes and reboot timeout to 20 minutes as in code below.
Doing a power off-on, it starts to work as normal, but when doing a soft reset it doesn’t behave as I would suspect.
This is what I see using ping (from windows)
- Reset
- Request timed out - Directly
- Reply from 192.168.0.197 - After 15.5 minutes from reset
- Request timed out - After just some additional seconds
- Reply from 192.168.0.197 - After just some additional seconds
- Request timed out - After just some additional seconds
- Reply from 192.168.0.197 - After 31 minutes from reset
Changing ap_timeout to 3 minutes and reset timeout to 5 minutes I get kind of the same behavior but with different time, this time it starts to work after 15 minutes
I’m not sure this is related to the issue at my fathers house (I’m not using the same router) but it indicates that there are some instabilities.
What are your suggestions for the most stable network configuration
esphome:
name: test1
friendly_name: test1
bk72xx:
board: generic-bk7231t-qfn32-tuya
logger:
web_server:
captive_portal:
mdns:
api:
password: ""
ota:
password: ""
wifi:
networks:
- ssid: !secret wifi_ssid2
password: !secret wifi_password2
manual_ip:
static_ip: 192.168.0.197
gateway: 192.168.0.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
dns1: 192.168.0.1
dns2: 192.168.0.1
power_save_mode: NONE
fast_connect: True
use_address: 192.168.0.197
ap:
ap_timeout: 10min
reboot_timeout: 20min