@Riley_S Thanks for your reply. I only have Zigbee at the moment. No Z-Wave. I seem to be able to add items pretty easily, but the signal strength of the network is not good and the controller is thus missing packets. I have tried adding devices to strengthen the network, but started looking at the signals in my area.    Right now on one end my Wifi is killing the Zigbee channel and on the others the neighbors WiFi is killing the Zigbee Channel. See, I would like to move my WiFi into channels that my not optimize the Wifi, but would optimize my Zigbee network and still have a great WiFi network (maybe just not the optimal). Thanks again for the help. 

  @James1579 

There was a post last week in which the TP-Link representative explained exactly why messing about with the Wi-Fi Channels is not in the Deco Mesh system.  Here is the Knowledgebase link;

https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/154561

  @Riley_S 

I also currently using Ring Products and it seems that unless I am manually able to select the channels it keeps disconnecting as it works on certain channles.

Manual selection would be great, I have the newer X55 and still no option for this and would prefer to be able to select Auto. If the above with Zigbee is an issue, I will start to see these soon as I am setting this up at the moment.

Any idea if this will be an option in the future on the deco Products?

Thx

  @Riley_S The ability to change wifi channels for all frequencies 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz and all Deco products is badly needed.  These features are already available on the TP-Link Archer routers so I don't see why the Deco products cannot have the same feature.  I understand that Deco units will "automatically" choose the right channel and for some people that it works out and I am all for keeping an "Auto" option for wifi channel selection as the default option but also allow the user to manually select the wifi channel of choice for their Deco router if they so choose.

In my experience, I never see the Deco change wifi channel for 5 GHz and always sits on channel 48 which is annoying.  I use a wifi analyzer to check out the channel congestion in my neighbors and they all use channels 36, 40, 44 and 48.  However channels 149, 153, 157, 161 and 165 are uncongested and I would like the ability to change my wifi channels to those for example on 5 GHz. 

  @flai54 

I have the same experience. My Deco has been stuck on channel 48 since I bought it over a year ago. The claim from TP-Link that it automatically scans and picks an uncongested channel is absolutely false. It's a facade. It just doesn't work.

I agree that changing the wifi channel should be an option.  I have, as my wife likes to say, way too many smart home devices.  My zigbee device count is about 115 now.  If I had known that interference would be such an issue and that I couldn't really do anything about it, I'd have gone with a different router.

Maybe it's wishful thinking on my part, but it appears that this "might" be in the works...

When I access my router through a browser, I see drop-downs for changing the channels, but they're grayed out.  Maybe, just maybe, we'll get the option soon.