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Can't change icons of attached devices
Have most updated firmware. I click on attached devices and then click on say a HP printer and I change the icon to printer. Says updating, but right back to standard icon. Any suggestions?
As a further troubleshooting of this issue I suggest doing the following telnet printout which will give us some information about why Orbi is behaving the way it does:
- Check the MAC address of the device you have issue with, let's say it's xx.xx.xx.xx.xx
- Enable telnet on the Router (from the /debug.htm page of the web interface)
- telnet to router from your computer
- After loggin in, run the following print comands on the command line:
- nvram show | grep xx.xx.xx.xx.xx
- Repeater the same procedure and do the same printout in the Satellite.
Not sure if that will help. I 'dumped' NVRAM on my RBR50 and RBS50, sorted everything alphabetically, and set up a comparison. (At least on my system) the router has two tables that are not present on the satellite:
Router Satellite
reservationxx Not present on satellite
orbi_dev_namexx Present, but not identical
orbi_dev_name_ntgrxx Not present on satellite
The satellite has nothing to do with assigning IP addresses, so it does not need the "reseravation" table, and
the satellite Connected Devices (not "Attached") does not show the icons, so it does not have that table, either.
I was surprised to learn that the orbi_dev_name table on the satellite was missing an entry that is on the router. My guess is that this device has never connected to the satellite, and thus the satellite has never had occasion to ask for its name. Actually, that is totally incorrect because the satellite has names for devices which are wired directly to the router. Thus, I have no explanation.
All my stuff is connected to the router. Nothing is wire-connected to a satellite. By hanging my satellites' wired backhaul to switches, I make sure that they are ONLY responsible for extending the wireless SSID network instead of also acting as wired network switches. So, every wired device on my network, including the satellites, and essentially wired back to the router via wired switches. So, missing variables for type+model in my case are only relevant on the router.
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CrimpOn wrote:......
I was surprised to learn that the orbi_dev_name table on the satellite was missing an entry that is on the router. My guess is that this device has never connected to the satellite, and thus the satellite has never had occasion to ask for its name. Actually, that is totally incorrect because the satellite has names for devices which are wired directly to the router. Thus, I have no explanation.
The orbi_dev_name table should be identical between Router and Satellite. It's the Router who always update the Satellite when you click Apply when setting the IP reservations or when changing the device names in the Attached Devices list.
In fact, if you factory reset the Satellite. Then the Router will -while doing "Config Sync" when you add the Satellite to the Router- will copy -among other things- this table to the Satellites completely as it is in the Router.
