Weird connection issue

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Just had a weird situation. Hope this is easy to follow.

I have two Heltec V3s. One is connected to my home Wi-Fi and the other is connected to a portable router’s Wi-Fi. I have a tablet connected to the portable router and my phone connected to the home Wi-Fi.

The node on the home Wi-Fi would not stay connected to my phone app. It would just cycle through connecting and disconnecting but could be seen and connected to in the Tablet app (portable wifi) via ip address. The node on the portable wifi showed up in neither phone or tablet.

On the home connected node I : Rebooted app and node, force closed and restarted the app, updated firmware, moved node to another room and nothing. I also double checked the network connections on nodes and tablet and phone and all were as they should be.

it sorted itself out when I turned off Bluetooth on the tablet. The home Wi-Fi node disappeared and the portable node appeared and I was able to connect. Going to the phone I was now able to connect and stay connected to the home Wi-Fi node.

I thought that Bluetooth was disabled when Wi-Fi was enabled? And why would the IP connection work?

anyway, just keep hitting buttons until desired result is achieved I guess

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I’m a bit confused regarding your setup. Just out of curiosity, what are you trying to do?

The only thing that comes to mind is that Bluetooth and WiFi both use the same frequency band. I guess the bt signal from your tablet could be fouling up the wifi connection somewhere. Kind of a long shot, but maybe try moving the portable router/tablet combo farther away from the other part of the system?

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Yes it can be confusing to read, I had to redo it once or twice so it made sense. What is happening in a bigger picture is that we’ve bridged to a separate system from meshtastic, hence the portable router. I had my phone BT running but it didn’t bother the connection so not sure why the tablet’s BT did.

I did move the heltec to the other end of the house away from routers, phone etc but it did not have any effect. Only righted itself when i turned off BT on the tablet.