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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?
Keith_1952 wrote:I can comfirm this issue on my RBR20. Changing the Device Type icon used to work until the most recent firmware update. All the device types I set prior to the latest update are still there, I just can't change one. I can however change the device name, just not the type. It's stuck on Network Device.
Can you please try to change the device type to something different than what it was before the upgrade, save it, then change it again to what it was before the upgrade!
So if you have an iPhone then change it first to say Bridge, save it, then change it again back to iPhone, will this work?
No, this does not work. It does not work because the firmware is ignoring any attempt to change the device type of any device. The type information is not being persisted.
Please activate telnet in the Router's debug page and run the following command from command prompt:
nvram show | grep orbi_dev_name_ntgr[0-999] | grep xxxxxxxx
Where xxxxxxxx is the MAC address of any device you have issue with, what do you see there?
I see some, but not all, of my devices. One example of a connected device not in the dump below has MAC address: 14:59:C0:34:36:B7. There are many more missing.
The dump follows.
root@RBR20:/# nvram show | grep orbi_dev_name_ntgr[0-999]
orbi_dev_name_ntgr20=28:80:88:DE:DC:7B 0 Netgear
orbi_dev_name_ntgr21=14:59:C0:34:36:B7 0 Netgear
orbi_dev_name_ntgr22=28:80:88:DE:EA:6D 0 Netgear
orbi_dev_name_ntgr23=1C:12:B0:EA:98:37 23 Amazon Echo Dot
orbi_dev_name_ntgr24=E8:E8:B7:60:38:ED 3 Samsung
orbi_dev_name_ntgr25=14:B3:1F:03:8C:AF 38 Windows PC
orbi_dev_name_ntgr26=F0:4F:7C:A1:4D:91 1 Android Devices
orbi_dev_name_ntgr27=58:67:1A:56:A7:46 4 Barnes&Noble
orbi_dev_name_ntgr10=D0:67:E5:E5:33:E3 38 Dell T110
orbi_dev_name_ntgr11=00:23:8B:A9:AF:41 38 Dell T100
orbi_dev_name_ntgr12=C0:C1:C0:21:6C:B5 34 Cisco
orbi_dev_name_ntgr13=00:BB:C1:67:2B:CE 27 CANON INC.
orbi_dev_name_ntgr14=5C:26:0A:3E:76:90 38 Dell
orbi_dev_name_ntgr15=00:23:15:CE:46:68 38 Intel
orbi_dev_name_ntgr16=74:C2:46:94:AD:1C 23 Amazon Echo
orbi_dev_name_ntgr17=CC:9E:A2:3B:E2:95 23 Amazon Echo Dot
orbi_dev_name_ntgr18=2C:0E:3D:3F:DE:E2 3 Android Devices
orbi_dev_name_ntgr19=B0:E1:7E:BA:D3:D4 2 Huawei
orbi_dev_name_ntgr1=24:4C:E3:5C:75:AE 1 Android Devices
orbi_dev_name_ntgr2=00:05:CD:22:31:5B 24 D&M Holdings Inc.
orbi_dev_name_ntgr3=88:DE:A9:62:C0:29 23 Roku
orbi_dev_name_ntgr4=AC:AE:19:10:5B:D2 23 Roku
orbi_dev_name_ntgr5=08:05:81:20:BB:42 23 Roku
orbi_dev_name_ntgr6=00:BB:3A:00:E4:DA 36 Android Devices
orbi_dev_name_ntgr7=8C:45:00:08:D1:2F 3 Samsung
orbi_dev_name_ntgr8=2C:0E:3D:48:D1:97 3 Android Devices
orbi_dev_name_ntgr9=30:05:5C:FD:11:82 27 Brother industries
root@RBR20:/#More information: Interestingly, for those connected devices whose MAC addresses DO appear in the telnet dump, I CAN edit their device type successfully.
Conversely, for the several connected devices that are missing from the dump, those types cannot be edited.
Keith_1952 wrote:More information: Interestingly, for those connected devices whose MAC addresses DO appear in the telnet dump, I CAN edit their device type successfully.
Conversely, for the several connected devices that are missing from the dump, those types cannot be edited.
Ok, can you see those missing devices when you do the following listing with the following command?
nvram show | grep orbi_dev_name[0-999]