This came up in a separate issue, where the Naim app loses sight of the Pi / Asset after a while which prevents me adding more tracks during a listening session. I traced it to the Deco mesh not being v good; the problem went away when I put the BT wifi back on and connected to that.
At the same time both me and Mrs H like to have decent wifi upstairs, she for her teaching prep etc, me if I’m lounging in bed and want to read the papers or watch iPlayer on the iPad etc. So the mesh is still there for the reason it was originally added, and the BT wifi is back to allow the Naim app to work in the living room.
It’s an issue with the Deco mesh; someone else on here had the same problem. Tbh from my pov it’s not asking for trouble; we have two wifi networks, for their own purposes, and both serve their purpose. Occasionally I have to remember to nudge the iPad back to the BT wifi (or I forget and Asset isn’t showing in the app so I know I have to toggle it to access the NAS). One day I’ll sell the Deco mesh and replace it, maybe with BT Discs, but for now it’s a low-level thing - it’s not trouble, it’s barely even an issue, it’s just a ‘oh yh’ moment that doesn’t happen again until I use the iPad upstairs, which is only occasionally.
Okay, if it’s only inconvenience for you…
… but, yeah, it seems there’s something „not optimal“ with the mesh (requiring he work-around with a second one), and maybe it’s my „IT soul“, which wants to have things „clean & tidy“.
(An affliction I only have about IT; not necessarily for the rest of my home. )
I can only say 100% & then some to go for the BT disc system, not the white discs, the black ones that partner the BT Smart Hub 2.
It so so easy to set up, the BT SH2 is made deliberately tinker proof to ward off amature fiddlers, although a few ‘safe’ changes can be made. The black disc(s) is first connected to the hub via an ethernet cable & when the LED indicates its done the handshake, the disc can then be placed wherever in the house to cover your weak/dead spots.
A tip tho’, (& this applies to all wireless connected mesh discs) don’t place disc(s) as far as possible from the wireless hub, the disc also needs to receive the wireless signal, it needs to be placed ‘midway’ to the dead spot & if possible on another floor level.
Thanks for that tip; I might do that, once BT have fixed the other issue (see further up this thread). At the minute the looming redundancy and juggling the idea of whether or not to give up and go early^ is a more pressing question, so for the time being willy-nilly spending to resolve a less than trivial thing is low down the list.
^ if only there were a thread in Padded Cell about the joys of early retirement.