Nehsmit Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 Hi All, i have 2 metal landscape enclosure boxes outside. 1 in the front and 1 in the rear landscaping. They both have a Wemo switch which connects to my C4. Unfortunately my rear landscaping Wemo switch losses Wi-Fi signal constantly. If I put it in my front enclosure it works just fine. Is there a better switch or one I can mount outside of the metal enclosure so as not to lose signal? I also tried the TP-link switch but same issue. Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekohn00 Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 10 hours ago, Nehsmit said: Hi All, i have 2 metal landscape enclosure boxes outside. 1 in the front and 1 in the rear landscaping. They both have a Wemo switch which connects to my C4. Unfortunately my rear landscaping Wemo switch losses Wi-Fi signal constantly. If I put it in my front enclosure it works just fine. Is there a better switch or one I can mount outside of the metal enclosure so as not to lose signal? I also tried the TP-link switch but same issue. Thank you in advance. I have the Wemo - also in my landscape box. One of the them also has a week signal due to distance and/or facing the wrong direction. I ended up using a Unifi Beacon (wifi repeater). Basically I would look to see if you can find an inexpensive way to bring your wifi signal closer to the demo...... repeater/wap outside or in the house but closer to the Wemo to get a better signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 May need to use an outdoor pigtail like Kasa or Control4 to get it outside of the box, or a controllable duplex outlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 21, 2022 Share Posted September 21, 2022 20 hours ago, Nehsmit said: Hi All, i have 2 metal landscape enclosure boxes outside. 1 in the front and 1 in the rear landscaping. They both have a Wemo switch which connects to my C4. Unfortunately my rear landscaping Wemo switch losses Wi-Fi signal constantly. If I put it in my front enclosure it works just fine. Is there a better switch or one I can mount outside of the metal enclosure so as not to lose signal? I also tried the TP-link switch but same issue. Thank you in advance. Why Metal? Can’t u put it into plastic outdoor enclosure? Amazon have tons of these and cost peanuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekohn00 Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 13 hours ago, Amr said: Why Metal? Can’t u put it into plastic outdoor enclosure? Amazon have tons of these and cost peanuts Many transformers for outdoor lighting come in metal enclosures. It's a one piece unit, so changing to plastic isn't really an option. Inside there's typically a plug (outlet) for the transformer where you would put a timer. in place of the old analog timer you could use a WEMO and instantly connect the outside lights to C4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nehsmit Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, ekohn00 said: Many transformers for outdoor lighting come in metal enclosures. It's a one piece unit, so changing to plastic isn't really an option. Inside there's typically a plug (outlet) for the transformer where you would put a timer. in place of the old analog timer you could use a WEMO and instantly connect the outside lights to C4. I’ve done that but it drops the Wi-Fi signal and I lose connection periodically. It’s very hit or miss. So I’m trying to figure a way to keep a better connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAV Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 15 hours ago, Amr said: Why Metal? Can’t u put it into plastic outdoor enclosure? Amazon have tons of these and cost peanuts It's probably one of these: Got to get the dohicky outside the enclosure. Either use a waterproof pigtail by Control4 or Kasa, Use a Control4 outlet, or put a switch before the outlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanITman Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 On 9/20/2022 at 10:04 PM, Nehsmit said: Hi All, i have 2 metal landscape enclosure boxes outside. 1 in the front and 1 in the rear landscaping. They both have a Wemo switch which connects to my C4. Unfortunately my rear landscaping Wemo switch losses Wi-Fi signal constantly. If I put it in my front enclosure it works just fine. Is there a better switch or one I can mount outside of the metal enclosure so as not to lose signal? I also tried the TP-link switch but same issue. Thank you in advance. I upgraded my wifi kasa to zigbee and my issues went away. The zigbee outdoor module is what I'm using and it sits outside the metal enclosure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nehsmit Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 8 minutes ago, DanITman said: I upgraded my wifi kasa to zigbee and my issues went away. The zigbee outdoor module is what I'm using and it sits outside the metal enclosure. Can I ask how you update the Wi-Fi Kasa to zigbee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Nehsmit said: Can I ask how you update the Wi-Fi Kasa to zigbee? You don’t - but what Dan was saying is he replaced them with Control4 native outdoor outlets that are zigbee DanITman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanITman Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 1 hour ago, Nehsmit said: Can I ask how you update the Wi-Fi Kasa to zigbee? By "upgraded" I mean a physical upgrade...not software. I bought a control4 outdoor zigbee switch. https://www.control4.com/docs/product/outdoor-plug-in-outlet-switch/data-sheet/english/latest//outdoor-plug-in-outlet-switch-data-sheet-rev-a.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nehsmit Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 On 9/22/2022 at 7:55 AM, ekohn00 said: Many transformers for outdoor lighting come in metal enclosures. It's a one piece unit, so changing to plastic isn't really an option. Inside there's typically a plug (outlet) for the transformer where you would put a timer. in place of the old analog timer you could use a WEMO and instantly connect the outside lights to C4. so I’ve updated to an outdoor Kasa and it works great because it’s outside the box, BUT the C4 integration is not great. C4 turns it on but the icon does not turn in in the C4 app. Also C4 won’t turn it off. Is this a Kasa C4 integration issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 3 hours ago, Nehsmit said: so I’ve updated to an outdoor Kasa and it works great because it’s outside the box, BUT the C4 integration is not great. C4 turns it on but the icon does not turn in in the C4 app. Also C4 won’t turn it off. Is this a Kasa C4 integration issue? As I told you there are some issues with the driver right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nehsmit Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 53 minutes ago, msgreenf said: As I told you there are some issues with the driver right now @AndrewL @msgreenf, I wasnt questioning you, I was wondering if anyone had a work around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msgreenf Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 @Andrew lueckeis the developer - he may have some ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Another solution is to get the metal enclosure closer to a WiFi AP this will help weaker WiFi signals inside the box and u just use regular WiFi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew luecke Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 On 9/24/2022 at 11:57 PM, Nehsmit said: so I’ve updated to an outdoor Kasa and it works great because it’s outside the box, BUT the C4 integration is not great. C4 turns it on but the icon does not turn in in the C4 app. Also C4 won’t turn it off. Is this a Kasa C4 integration issue? G'day, You shouldn't be having issues if you're on the current Stable version (the issues I've come across are in the beta). I'll send you a PM to allow remote access so we can take a look. It also depends what driver you're linking to, or could be network related (if you're doing something funny with the network, the UDP traffic might not be working properly). Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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