Fun fact, California doesn’t mandate safety or roadworthiness inspections for personal vehicles at all - only emissions.

This was a bit of a surprise to me when I moved here, given CAs reputation.

It says in the manual that it’ll only connect to 2.4GHz networks, but I have both frequencies active on my router, and no dice.

Are they using the same name (SSID) ? Some 2.4 only devices won’t connect to a network with the same SSID on different bands. I have a separate IoT SSID available on 2.4 only for such devices (it’s also on its own VLAN)