When booting the Vero4K the OS, (in I’d say 50% of the cases), does not “see” the 5G connection. It is there, though. When it does see it, it works. But at the next boot it’s gone again. I could of course switch to the non-5G, but then sound is not syncing with the video.
When the 5g connection is not seen, have you tried disabling wifi and then re-enabling? I’m not suggesting this as the solution, its just if the 5g connection appears then; it may give in sight as to what the issue is.
I have tried disabling and enabling several times. Mostly it does not help.
Weird thing is : the 5g-repeater upstairs is seen without fail by osmc despite its signal being very much weaker than the router’s 5g signal in the living room where the router and the Vero are. The Vero is positioned some 3 meters from the router.
Also (perhaps unrelated) : the myosmc screen with the network and wifisettings is terribly slow. Sometimes takes up to a minute or longer to show the wifi connections. Exiting the screen is also very slow.
Any ideas to investigate welcome, but I won’t be responding for the rest of the day. Need sleep.
Thanks for all your help.
Edit: also : I’ve rebooted the Vero several times throughout trying to get the 5g to work…
True: if the 5G is not working I have to revert to 2.5G to be able to ssh into osmc and upload logs.
I have to put in the rather complicated password with the osmc-remote and the osmc password diologue (which doesn’t seem to have a feature to show the password in readable format), which is quite cumbersome - I did make a mistake once or twice. I think you are seeing one of these attempts.
Out of curiosity: is 36 a “bad” channel? Is there a reason not to use that channel?
I’ll look into how to change the channel number asap and report back.
Not sure. I’d have to look into this.
For now, I think I’ll remove the repeater, just to make the actual situation a bit less complicated and avoid any interference between repeater and router.
now you tell me… I’ll look into that, but also: when your wifi is not up and you can not connect a cable to your Vero (as is the case here) there is no way to ssh into the Vero.
So:
Repeater is off line.
Router set to channel 100/80.
Then you can try Plan B: attach a USB keyboard to the Vero4K. You can run into issues with the keyboard mapping of certain characters, eg £, #, @, since you can’t see what’s being displayed, but it will usually work if the password is just numbers and letters.
Thanks, would be much easier indeed, but the Vero is built in, in a box of sorts, which is screwed to the ceiling of the living room, so a keyboard is not quite that straightforward an option either…
Actually 36 is the best channel on 5ghz if you live in the EU. All other channels can potentially affected by radar. Only after switching to 36 my 5ghz became stable. If my router detected radar activity, it would shut down 5ghz wifi for 10 minutes except channel 36 because that is not used by radar. Of course if you live in a very densly populated area and everyone uses 36, then it is a problem again. But most people still don‘t use 5ghz or they use 5ghz with auto channel… so setting it to 36 manually is a great idea if you live in the EU.
I don’t really know how to read those lines, but the log date and time you quote seem to point to yesterday. Any information in there with today’s date?
I’ll look into that, but also: when your wifi is not up and you can not connect a cable to your Vero (as is the case here) there is no way to ssh into the Vero.