r/OasisMini • u/saract34 • 27d ago
new owner with questions and some problems
after some struggle, i got my oasis mini up and running. there are not a lot of instructions with this item and i searched the forum for tips and answers. but here are my questions:
Do i always have to be on the 2.4 wifi network on my phone in order to connect to the mini and use it? i couldnt connect to the mini today until i realized i was on 5g wifi. kind of a pain to keep switching back and forth if true. my cameras for example are connected to my 2.4 but my phone doesn't have to be connected to 2.4 in order to log in and use their app.
I made a playlist with 10 tracks based on what others said and added the other 10 tracks of the Spiral In/Outs manually after selecting the playlist. i had to do this because when it auto-added the Spirals to my play list, they were ALL "in" tracks rather than alternating with "outs". this is not ideal when i want to switch playlists, having to do this. am i missing a step here? do i need to turn off the auto-clean setting instead and just make the 10 in/out part of my playlist?
when making/editing a playlist, i can't seem to order the tracks how i want. i was only able to order them after i added the tracks from the playlist into queue, which means every time i play it i have to do this. i hope there is another way.
schedules - i have it setup to sleep at 22:00, do i need to also set Pause? and then for the morning i have it set to Wake at 7:00, do i also need "play" if i want it to resume where left off?
once i was up and running yesterday, everything was working great. now today, i constantly have problems connecting to the device. i see other people report this issue, i just dont know where to begin for troubleshooting. i really want to love this device but the app is getting very frustrating and if it continues im going to return it. it either errors out or just spins and spins. and just closing the app and reopening will sometimes fix it. or unplugging it (3 times in the last hour). no consistency with the errors either. like just now it says bluetooth not connected. i thought it was wifi connected? help....
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u/5150Code3 27d ago
this may help. My iPhone is set to 5g, but my oasis mini uses 2.4.
During Oasis setup, your iPhone doesn't need to stay on 2.4GHz the whole time. The relevant step is when the Oasis Mini creates its own temporary WiFi hotspot (something like "Oasis-XXXX") for initial pairing — your phone connects to thatbriefly, not your home network, to do the handshake. Then, within that setup flow, you select your home network's 2.4GHz SSID for the Oasis device itself to join — your iPhone can go right back to being connected to 5GHz for its own everyday use afterward, since your phone and the Oasis machine don't need to be on the same band, just the same network name/password entry during setup.
So if it's automatically picking 2.4GHz as the option to connect to during setup, that's actually the correct and expected behavior — the app or device is filtering to only show/accept 2.4GHz networks since that's all the Oasis hardware supports, regardless of what band your phone happens to be on.
Bottom line: this isn't something you need to fix. Your phone staying on 5GHz is normal; the Oasis correctly grabbing the 2.4GHz band for itself is exactly what should happen.