Recovering from a Broken MikroTik Configuration

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by merlinscholz • 4 years ago

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jaclaz2• 4 years ago

Question for those that are familiar with Philips Hue, is this correct?

... you can't go to sleep because your Philips Hue lights require WiFi to turn off.

Or there is some ways to switch them manually (like a remote or something)?

merlinscholz2• 4 years ago

You can turn them off at the socket, the newer ones via Bluetooth, and with the bridge itself. The bridge didn’t work because it is on a separate IOT vlan (and routing between wifi and this vlan didn’t work), and I was too lazy to turn them off one by one.

The nice thing about hue is that they work without an internet connection, which is not a given these days.

jaclaz2• 4 years ago

I see, thanks, I imagined (wrongly) that if your Wi-Fi router was down (besides Internet connection), even for a simpler issue, let's say a failed power supply, you were stuck with lights either on or off until you fixed it.

Besides my (personal) skepticism about anything IoT, I feared that in such a setup having a working Wi-Fi was "essential", if there is a failsafe of some kind (like direct bluetooth) it is less bad than I imagined.

Recovering from a Broken MikroTik Configuration

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