topic Re: Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter in Broadband

Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter

3KL — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:47:54 GMT

Has anyone had a problem with their octopus mini dropping connection daily?! If we switch off the sky hub and back on, the mini reconnects. The mini only works on 2.4 not 5.
The sky hub was replaced a few months ago, previous one was fine, this one started to drop the mini weekly but it's every day at approx 2am?

Re: Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter

Flymo666 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:00:18 GMT

Mine won't connect full stop I've disabled 5ghz

still won't work been trying last 2 weeks

Re: Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter

GD1 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:17:12 GMT

@3KL How far from the hub is the mini? As poor wifi can cause it to disconnect

Re: Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter

Flymo666 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:36:18 GMT

About a metre lol I've tried everything

Re: Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter

Chrisee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:47:24 GMT

@Flymo666 if you have a white Sky hub try going into the hub's advanced settings and find the one for WiFi security and change it from the defaukr WPA3-T to WPA2 as some devices which may include your smart meter cannit cooe with the newer higher security setting.

Re: Octopus 🐙 home mini smart meter

Chrisee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:54:56 GMT

@3KL do you have a partial fibre broadband connectiin? As 2am is around the time the DLM system applies changes to your connection if the connection is becoming unstable. However the fact the broadband connection resets should not cause the WiFi connection between the meter and the hub to drop. Seems strange have you spoken to Octopus?