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Cannot update device names/types
My system consists of 1 RBR50 and two RBS50 satellites running in AP mode behind a router with DHCP server. Ever since I performed the firmware update to 2.3.5.30 (although I'm not 100% sure if it's...
Thanks for the help. Not a big issue of course. I won't do another firmware upgrade just for that. Takes too much time to get the Orbi system running again. The satellite connect process is tedious as well. I can still change the name, just not the type/model field before and the icon/type field behind the name. Not via the web browser and also not via the phone app. Icons simply go back to the default after 10 seconds. As I said: not a big deal, just annoying. Perhaps this disappears with the next update...
Something you might contact a Forum moderator about and let them know. Hopefully fixed on next update.
Enjoy.
jtcommunity wrote:
Thanks for the help. Not a big issue of course. I won't do another firmware upgrade just for that. Takes too much time to get the Orbi system running again. The satellite connect process is tedious as well. I can still change the name, just not the type/model field before and the icon/type field behind the name. Not via the web browser and also not via the phone app. Icons simply go back to the default after 10 seconds. As I said: not a big deal, just annoying. Perhaps this disappears with the next update...
Problem got progressively worse after update of all Orbis to V2.5.0.38. Half of the device name entries can be changed, the other half refuses to change (at all). Doesn't matter if the device is connected to router or one of the satellites (my system has one RBR50 and two RBS50 satellites). After the update, I even switched off the satellites, deleted the device connection and reconnected them again. No change. If I look in the web interface of the satellites, 2.4 kHz connections are not shown (although they're definitely there, I pinged them) and the other device names show as "UNKNOWN" although they're specified in the RBR50. What's going on here? Do I have to completely reset the satellites and router to default after every firmware upgrade? Really?
- It got worse again tonight: I decided to see whether disconnecting, resetting and reconnecting the satellites would help. It changed nothing. Still the names cannot be changed. And what's worse: I could connect both satellites again, but the second one, while being correctly shown in the web pages of the router as connected with the right name and IP-number, cannot be pinged anymore! This means that opening the web interface also doesn't work. When looking in the web interface for the first satellite all connected devices are shown as UNKNOWN. What's happening with the second satellite, I don't know. Perhaps the reset damaged the firmware part for the web server. I also gave the second satellite a different IP number in the DHCP router (the Orbi router doesn't do that as it's in AP mode). It's correctly shown again in the web interface of the Orbi router and also in the DHCP router but it still cannot be pinged on the IP number. Any help would be appreciated.