I know there are about a dozen entirely unhelpful threads on this, but they're all locked, so I thought I'd open up a new one to be gaslit for awhile.
First and foremost, this is a critically defective product that should have been recalled. Knowing that, I still spent a few hundred bucks on it, so I'd like to limp through with it until I decide to buy something that works. The issue (as called out by dozens of others) is that if the Nest Wifi system loses power for even a millisecond, the entire ecosystem has to be hard reset one by one. I've had to do this about 8 times, and while it's always been time consuming, this new issue is a first for me. I assume it's related to the firmware "fix" they put in at the end of 2023.
Previously, every time this happened, I just had to reset every single device in my house (google mesh setup with router and 2 repeaters, 3 smart locks, 6 cameras, ALL had to be individually reset). However, now, even resetting doesn't work. I get to the second step in setting up the Wifi router and I get the dreaded "Connection Failed" error when it tries to get a network connection.
I know I'm not alone in this, but has Google just abandoned trying to fix this? Has anyone that's gotten stuck in the endless "Connection Failed" loop been successful in fixing it?
As a side note, can anyone recommend a replacement (from literally any company other than google) that actually works?
