<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for that Gabor.</div><div>As I work from home using the internet I can't risk my current router.</div><div>But I have found the same hub for sale pre-installed with openwrt and I think having a second box as a backup is a good idea, so it is on it's way.</div><div><br></div><div>Once I have that, set up & working, I may try converting the original.</div><div>My experiments trying to get the RasPi to be a wifi bridge have met with failure so far.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly the seller fansn2004 is from Dalkeith - my home town!</div><div>Maybe they are on this list?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all</div><div>Keith</div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 21:31, Gábor Majoros <<a href="mailto:mersaint@gmail.com">mersaint@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">Hi there</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Have not personally experienced this, but the BT HH5A (if that's yours) is quite a beast and would run openwrt quite happily.<div dir="auto"><a href="https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a" target="_blank">https://openwrt.org/toh/bt/homehub_v5a</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gabor</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, 21:19 Keith Wyse, <<a href="mailto:kwyse3436@gmail.com" target="_blank">kwyse3436@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all;</div><div>Posted to EdLUG and Edinburgh Hacklab; sorry for any duplicates.</div><div><br></div><div>I've been trying to build my smart home for quite a while now.</div><div>I have noticed that my standard BT v5 wifi box doesn't always connect to the remote devices.</div><div>Something suggested on the net was to have the hub reset every night and I have a smart socket do that. Still hit & miss if I get all the devices.</div><div><br></div><div>So I had the idea of using a recently purchased Raspberry Pi 4 as the wifi hub.</div><div>But some of the guides I have found suggest the Pi would only be able to connect to 10 devices.</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone else found similar problems and did you find a solution?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Keith</div><div>Scottish Borders<br></div></div>
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