Hi everybody. I say you're trying to set up your smart home devices but you have mesh internet and say you're unable to isolate what frequency your smartphone iPad whatever uses to connect you know to connect to the internet because mesh internet internet automatically switches back and forth between frequencies depending on you know what is best for you and your device. I guess they're smarter I think they're smarter than we are at times. So problem is a lot of smart home devices use 2.4 the 2.4 frequency instead of the 5 frequency and because you cannot specifically say especially with you get Google mesh internet you can't specifically say I want to connect my phone to the 2.4 frequency in order to set up this device at least you can't do that right now whether it's not a way that I'm aware of so you have to have a workaround. There's got to be a way for you to get your phone to connect force your phone to connect to the 2.4 frequency so that you can set up the smart home device. It's a very common problem I did a little bit of research and a lot of products do not use the 5 frequency in order to connect so they have to have the 2.4. So very simple you may be wondering why are we in the garage if you're setting up a smart home device. I'm setting up LED lights and LED light strip in my kitchen and this is what I'm going to do. Basically I have the device is in whatever mode you consider you know set up mode it's blinking ready for me to connect it's connected to my phone so what I'm going to do is basically walk down the street until my internet disconnects from my phone it's very simple basically you know anything about internet the internet routers the 5 gigahertz frequency is stronger it can hold a bigger load but it doesn't go through walls it's not as flexible so it isn't going to go as far but if you have the 2.4 frequency it can it can go through walls then around corners is more flexible than the 5 but it can't quite hold as much stuff so you feel a lot of things connected to the 5 I mean to the 2.4 your signal is going to be slower whereas if you have a lot of things connected to the 5 signal be stronger if your router is in the living room and you're in the living room connect to the 5 but if your if your router is in the living room and you're in your bedroom or in your backyard or something like that you're going to want to be connected to 2.4 so the only way to know that your phone you've forced your phone to disconnect from the 5 is to walk until you see the range the little you know Wi-Fi indicator on your phone disconnect and then once you hit that point you stop turn around and then slowly walk back home when you get just to the point where the Wi-Fi connects automatically you know that you've reconnected if it if you're getting a little bit closer a little bit closer and it hasn't reconnected on its own go ahead and select that select your internet enter your password and if it connects you'll know that you've connected to the 2.4 you're still really far away you're far enough away that it disconnected you walked a little bit closer and it reconnected sometimes the little Wi-Fi indicator won't be all the way so you'll think oh I don't have a strong signal but you've essentially forced your phone to connect to the weakest frequency which is going to be the 2.4 because it's going to reach further but it won't be as strong so you know that you've your phone is connected to 2.4 then you can proceed with setting up your device I'm gonna do that now with the lights okay so we're gonna walk away from the house one thing look both ways before you step into the road one thing I forgot to do that I recommend is disconnect any of your little hotspots the little routers that come with it so you have your main router and then the little Wi-Fi points throughout the house I did not disconnect those so I imagine I'm gonna have to walk a little bit further in order to get my internet to disconnect a little further than I did let's see so we should be I thought I'd end up in my neighbors yard my neighbors driveway but it turns out I'm about four or five houses down and then I have disconnected as you saw it disconnect from my internet and I'm gonna slowly walk back and we should be getting reconnect see it automatically connects on its own and now I know you can see that the signals weak and I know I'm connected to the 2.4 gigahertz frequency at this point so I can go ahead and proceed with setting up my smart home device so I completed the setup for the device and as you can see hey Google hey Google turn the kitchen lights blue you can see I have a successful smart home device setup there were several kind of goofy solutions for it online a lot of overly technical solutions if you have a dual band router you can easily go in and rename one of the SSIDs you just add two four to the end of the 2.4 frequency or add a five to the end of the five frequencies you know which one to connect but if you like I said if you have a mesh internet system you can't do that that's in this basically walking down the street is the easiest way to kind of force your phone to connect to the right frequency so you can set it up hope you found this video informative helpful if you did give it a thumbs up leave a comment tell which thank if it did or did not work for you I'm curious to know so thank you all for watching you