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New Firmware Notification
For the past three days (2/11/2020) my IOS app has been giving me a notification that new firmware is available for the RBR50. I go into the app and do a check for new firmware and nothing is availab...
Make that four days in a row -- got another new firmware notification.
Strange behaviour by NG. I got the notice, and then it was gone a couple of days later. You either release or don’t 👎.
BigRune wrote:
Strange behaviour by NG. I got the notice, and then it was gone a couple of days later. You either release or don’t 👎.I have a suspicion that these "new firmware" messages are driven not by new firmware, but by an invalid value in the Orbi internal parameters. When I dump the Orbi parameters, there are over 1,800 of them. Many are pretty obvious, but a lot of them "could be anything, who knows?" I think the Orbi "app" is retrieving some values from the Orbi and comparing them to values from the Netgear web site and inferring, "There must be new firmware. Put up a message."
I don't have any iOS devices, and these "firmware update" messages do not appear on the web interface or my Android app. When this message shows up, does it actually list a firmware release number, or simply say, "New Firmware."
- It just says new firmware available, not a specific version.
- In web interface v2.5.1.8 was listed for both sat and router. Notice in app and web appeared and disappeared at the same time.
Saw another post that one user had seen v2.5.1.8 in the FW check section. NG may have posted this version to the auto updater servers and now being seeing as an available upgrade. It's a minor upgrade so NG isn't forcing it to anyones system. It's your choice if you wanna upgrade or not. I and others are using it and its stable and works well. Some may need a factory reset and setup from scratch if you encounter problems after you allow it to update your system.
