I’m having issues with my Unifi setup and my ESP32s.
Every single ESP shows as AP/Client Signal Balance - Poor, while any other device such as laptop or phone, does not.
It also shows the wifi standard as wifi 4.
Any unifi pros out there. Im also connecting devices to a hidden SSID, therefor I have fast connect enabled and I can see that some devices are connecting to the wrong ap. Is there a way around this? Can we specify a BSSID for example?
Along with my global roaming 2.4GHz and 5GHz wifi networks I set up a 2.4GHz network unique to each access point. Then in the esp devices specified the closest network (SSID) to connect to.
Now ESPHome has improved a lot since I had to do this. I think it might now be possible to specify the AP to connect to by specifying the BSSID as well as the SSID in ESPHome.
Yea ok so to test and confirm, I disabled fast connect and the SSID is no longer hidden, and everything seems to be way more stable now.
@tom_l good idea, I see there is a option in the wifi setup of esphome to specify a BSSID, could this work by locking it to an AP from within the esp32 esphome config.
@safritjuh88 this is good to know too, I will look at this.
bssid (Optional, string): The connection’s BSSID (MAC address). BSSIDs must consist of six two-digit hexadecimal values separated by colon characters (”:”). All letters must be in upper case.