08 Nov 2024 05:17 PM
Hi all,
I need to connect to an EzViz security camera. I've had this operating perfectly for years, but it broke once I upgraded to the Sky WiFi Max Hub. I think I need to connect to the 2.4Ghz band, but I can't see any way to force the camera to pick that up. I only have one SSD so no way to force a device on to one band or the other. Looking at my connected devices I can see that newer iPhones and MacBooks are connected to 5Ghz wifi and older iPhones and MacBooks are happily connected at 2.4Ghz, without any prompting. However my security camera clearly isn't that clever and needs to be pointed in the right direction, so I'm trying to differenciate the the two wifi bands.
In "Gateway > Connection > Wi-Fi" the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands are both listed and there's an 'Edit' button next to them. I thought I could edit the SSD on the 2.4Ghz one to differentiate it, however none of the fields in either page are editable. I'm using Chrome on a Mac OS 14.7. Is there a bug with the Sky Hub admin? How do I edit anything on these pages?
Thanks in advance.
11 Nov 2024 06:33 PM
In case anyone reads this, I did manage to get my Security camera back onto the wifi. I disabled 5Ghz band on the router, but also degraded the security level down to WPA/2. I don't know what the thing was that actually fixed it yet, but suspect it was the wifi security level. The quesion is, was the previous Sky router operating at WPA/2? I suspect not, in which case I don't quite know how it was previously connecting my camera!
My next task is to enable the 5Ghz band again, but I don't quite want to do this yet in case it undos 4 days of work up a ladder configuring my camera! I'll do so later in the week and report back if it all fails...
08 Nov 2024 06:18 PM - last edited: 08 Nov 2024 06:23 PM
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@biswak wrote:
In "Gateway > Connection > Wi-Fi" the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands are both listed and there's an 'Edit' button next to them. I thought I could edit the SSD on the 2.4Ghz one to differentiate it, however none of the fields in either page are editable. I'm using Chrome on a Mac OS 14.7. Is there a bug with the Sky Hub admin? How do I edit anything on these pages?
Max Hub administration is largely through the My Sky app rather than the web interface. The app will permit you to disable the 5Ghz band, but not unsynchronize 2.4Ghz from 5Ghz and run them with different SSIDs which isn't currently possible (and may never be)
https://www.sky.com/help/articles/change-wifi-max-hub-settings
08 Nov 2024 06:48 PM
Oh no, that would be a disaster! Thanks for the reply. Do you know if Sky offer a 'downgrade' to the previous Hub?
08 Nov 2024 06:53 PM
When you say 'unsynchronize 2.4Ghz from 5Ghz', I can see that the Hub is happily operating at both bands with different devices connected to each. My problem is that I need to get my Camera to connect to 2.4Ghz, but it's either not finding it, or something else.
Would it be possible to disable 5Ghz, connect the camera, and then renable 5Ghz without dropping the connection with the camera perhaps?
10 Nov 2024 02:35 PM
Still no progress on this, even after changing security to WP2 and Wifi band to 2.4Ghz. If anyone has any other suggestions for reconnecting the previously working camera that would be great. Failing that, anyone know if Sky can take away the Max Hub and send me the old one back?
11 Nov 2024 06:33 PM
In case anyone reads this, I did manage to get my Security camera back onto the wifi. I disabled 5Ghz band on the router, but also degraded the security level down to WPA/2. I don't know what the thing was that actually fixed it yet, but suspect it was the wifi security level. The quesion is, was the previous Sky router operating at WPA/2? I suspect not, in which case I don't quite know how it was previously connecting my camera!
My next task is to enable the 5Ghz band again, but I don't quite want to do this yet in case it undos 4 days of work up a ladder configuring my camera! I'll do so later in the week and report back if it all fails...
11 Nov 2024 06:45 PM
Posted by a Superuser, not a Sky employee. Find out more
@biswak wrote:
The quesion is, was the previous Sky router operating at WPA/2? I suspect not, in which case I don't quite know how it was previously connecting my camera!
The Max Hub is the first Sky model to do WPA3. A Broadband Hub and Q Hub would use WPA2-PSK by default.
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