LB plugs has started to broadcasting its wifi ap

Ashley

Hi LB

What would be the cause of one of my LB plugs start broadcasting its wifi ap even though its all set up in esp home integration in Home Assistant.

Thanks
Ash

BertQuodge

In my experience, the plugs do this if they can’t connect to WiFi. Not ideal from a security perspective. I disable this revert to AP function under the wifi section in yaml with:

wifi:
  ap:
    ap_timeout: 0s

I don’t know why your plug isn’t connecting to wifi, can you move closer to an AP and or reconnect it? I’d also disable wifi power saving, which caused me a ton of pain when I first got a plug.

Power saving can be disabled i yaml underr wifi with:

wifi:
  power_save_mode: none

Cheers

Ashley

Thanks for the replies. Ive deleted 2 of my plugs from HA and now can’t get them to rejoin.
I can see the wifi ap’s but they will not join.
Is there something i need to do to reset them?

Ashley

Ok. Latest developments.
My plug is showing in my wifi router.
When i select it to join nothing happens.
Its showing an IP of 169.254.181.94
subnet 255.255.0.0
Router no details.
I have tried reseting with on and off 6 times.
Still no joy.
Am i missing something?

RebeccaH

Hi @Ashley

Thank you so much for your patience!

If the plug is connected to your WIFI (sounds like it is, if showing in your router) it won’t broadcast its hotspot. You will instead just want to add the device in HA.

I hope this helps!