M5 1.6.0 connection preference stopping devices reconnecting
I thought the ability to set a connection preference for a device in this firmware was brilliant - but it is causing problems. Devices that I set a preference on are at some point later (could be hours or days) dropping off the network and then failing to reconnect. I have had this happen with two devices now, my Wiser central heating controller, and an ESP8266 running Tasmota.
In each case, powering the device off and on will bring it back online, and also when the ESP8266 dropped off just now, I went in to the deco app and set its connection preference back to auto (I didn't touch the device), and it immediately came online again (but not to the node I had set as preferred). It had been offline for about 40 minutes, all the M5 nodes were online.
So while this feature is very welcome, as static devices will sometimes inexplicably switch/lock to a node with much poorer signal, there's something not quite right with it. It seems devices are dropping off for some reason, and then appear to get stuck trying to reconnect to a node other than the one set as preferred, which I assume the deco system is refusing...?