Deco X50 with Apple Homekit and Eve Home
Hello,
Short summary: Since I got the TP-Link Deco X50, my Homekit has been acting strangely in combination with the products of Eve Home. I suspect on certain frequencies.
The story:
Earlier this year my WiFi mesh network consisted of the Deco M4 (4 pieces). But due to the increase in more and more WiFi equipment, I noticed that it no longer worked. The CPU load was almost constantly high, which caused the necessary delay. In other words I got complaints from the family ;)
There was also an Apple HomePod mini and some Eve Home products (EVE energy, EVE Room and EVE Weather). This all works on Thread. All EVE 'endpoints' were directly accessible and switched via HomeKit at the specified times.
After I replaced the M4's for 3x an X50 and everyone was super happy with the wifi speed and range, then the problems with Homekit and/or EVE started. The entire system became unstable. Switches did not work regularly, endpoints were not always reachable. Via the EVE app you can check whether the Thread network is functioning and some endpoints were seen immediately, others only based on Bluetooth and others not at all.
After some testing and moving the HomePod it looked like it was a cover issue. When the HomePod was close to an EVE product, it went well (presumably based on Bluetooth).
Until recently I had a power outage and miraculously after the power was back everything worked flawlessly.
But last week there were some wifi complaints from the attic room. An analysis was done using the DECO app and it indicated that the channels had to be optimized (too busy).. and hop.. after the optimization, WiFi was super fast again, but the entire Thread network was broken again.
I gave all the Deco's an reset and Thread works again...until the next reset.
So it looks like the X50 gives some kind of interference with Thread and/or the Homepod mini (which also uses Thread)
Bit of a long story but I'm curious about any ideas.
Regards,
Martijn