I have all Meross light switches (2.4ghz only) and recently forced my router to transmit only 2.4ghz so I could set them all up -- worked great for smart home connectivity, but streaming- ul, video calls, FaceTime, etc. they were slow. 2.4.
I re-enabled 5ghz so both 2.4 and 5 (not separate SSIDs) are broadcasting -- now every smart home device is unresponsive! When I turn off 5GHz, all smart devices reconnect and work fine.
However, in both configurations (2.4 and 2.4/5 only), they are only broken in HomeKit -- the devices remain connected to the network (visible in my router app) and to the Meross app.
I'm guessing HomeKit Bridges (Apple TVs and HomePods) connect to 5GHz for better connectivity and all smart home devices stay on 2.4? I'm not sure if that's how it works behind the scenes, but it's very frustrating that HomeKit keeps failing.
My solution is to connect via HomeBridge on my Umbrella node, but that's not ideal because of the lag.
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