After moving a couple things around, I had 2 pi zero’s that just would not stay connected. I should say they showed as connected in unifi but were unreachable otherwise.
After going through so many settings/balancing ap’s nothing was working. In a last ditch effort I set the 2.4 band channel width to 40. This is something that typically introduces problems, not in my case.
After switching over everything has been steady, I have quite a few esp’s connected to those ap’s. Stable before, stable after. The interesting thing is a lifx z strip that I had long given up on. With the switch to 40, it is way more stable than it’s ever been.
Everyone’s environment is different so while this might not be a solution for everyone, it worth a shot when all else has failed.
- the pi’s are template sensors listening to an mqtt topic, so grey is unreachable. 2A was changed after I saw the result of 3B.