XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)

XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-07-27 12:07:56

  @XWEBNetwork and @David-TP 

 

The update has eliminated the drop off of my 2.4Ghz clients! - Yay!

I sometimes still see latency when using them via the Home App, 1-2 seconds at the most.

 

Looking at the logs, there seems to be some issues with the radio but it seems to be able to recover fast enough.

Looking at any log file will show you issues ;)

 

I will attempt to pull wires for back-haul but it is a long term project as I would need to cut open walls and at the same time keep the wife calm :)

 

Hoping to see further improvement going forward.

 

/Jonas

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-07-28 01:17:49
This is good looking progress! Hoping they will send something my way too!
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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-07-29 14:15:25

  @David-TP 

Currently the only official release offered via the app is 1.2.9 - when will 1.2.10 be release to the public?

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-07-29 14:25:58

  @Jonas-Homekit You can download 1.2.10 from the website. That's what I am running on our network right now. But still running into issues.

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-07-29 15:17:58

  @XWEBNetwork 

Thanks , I am currently running 1.2.8 Build 20231204 Rel. 64082.

So far not any of the issues I saw before has resurfaced.

Only stubborn device is my Netatmo Doorbell camera - but it is known not to play well with mesh networks and would require the separate 2.4 GHz network to be stable.

 

I have yet to enable IoT network as I would need some mentioned to this in the release notes of improved stability.

 

/Jonas

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-07-29 15:22:56

  @XWEBNetwork 

Going here https://www.tp-link.com/ca/support/download/deco-xe75-pro/v3/#Firmware

I only see the 1.2.9. I am on V3 hardware BTW.

 

/Jonas

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-08-02 21:40:30

@XWEBNetwork , it is out now and available from within my APP.

@David-TP , is this release better than what I have installed on my XE75 (1.2.8 Build 20231204 Rel. 64082) ??

Should I update and revert back if I see issues?

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-10-01 19:30:59

  @David-TP 

 

Hello there!

 

I have been running the "beta" firmware for a few weeks now.

It is much more "stable" from a network point of view, but still has moments when the nodes will disconnect from the "main" one.

Sometimes they reconnect and sometimes I need to restart the entire network.

 

I have realized when I have the 6Ghz network on the same SSID name as the 5Ghz, it is much less stable (only having 2 6Ghz clients).

I also enabled the IoT network (2.4Ghz only) and this part made all my IoT devices much more responsive.

 

I feel like soon there must be an official release that I can download and use rather than this in-official version.

 

/Jonas

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-10-01 20:08:19

  @Jonas-Homekit 

 

I ended up buying a BE85 and set that as the main unit for my XE75's, with the assumption that more processing power would help...

 

And it definitely has. Still some quirks with IOT stuff, but I haven't had to reboot the network since. And its been about a month.

 

Kind of ridiculous though and it would suggest that the XE75's are still buggy as all hell. As I have mentioned to TPLink in the past, the M5's in the same config worked just fine. So the XE75's must just be incredibly innefficient in leveraging their hardware.

 

 

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Re:XE75 Pro and HomeKit (and IoT Network) (and Bell - non bridge modem)
2024-10-04 14:53:07

  @XWEBNetwork 

That is quite an expensive work around ;)

 

I will hope that Firmware keeps updating so that I can use them as intended and as advertized.

 

at the moment, I have about 50% of the clients in the IoT network (2.4 only), and the rest on the 5Ghz.

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