Phone MAC Randomization Breaking Presence-Based Automations
You built a presence-based automation two years ago: when your phone connects to home Wi-Fi, the lights turn on and the thermostat…
Aniket Solanki writes about the small failures that make a smart home feel less smart: the sensor that stops reporting after a firmware push, the routine that fires twice on a daylight saving morning, the hub that quietly forgets a device it has known for two years. He tests every fix on his own setup before publishing so readers get sequences that actually resolve the problem instead of the polite ones the official support pages tend to offer. His interest in smart home reliability started when a Zigbee mesh he had spent months tuning fell apart during a routine router replacement, and the recovery took a full week of trial and error that nobody had bothered to document. He writes for Fixynest so the next reader looking for the same fix does not have to repeat that week. If a guide here works for you, tell him. If it does not, tell him that too. Corrections keep the guides honest.
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