Orbi settings for nest protect

Likely, this is because Nest Protect devices use only the 2.4 GHz band and require that the smart phone that you use for activating the devices is also connected to the 2.4 GHz band. This is a limitation in the procedure that Nest uses for the activation and not in Orbi!

You can come around this limitation in different ways, one of them is to temporarily disable the 5 Ghz band in Orbi.

There is no settings in Orbi to disable a wifi radio band. You need to use telnet to do this. Please follow the following steps to temporarily disable the 5 GHz band:

1. From browser go to the router's debug page (http://192.168.1.1/debug.htm). Use your router's IP address or http://orbilogin.com/debug.htm
2. Enter admin as user name and your router’s management password
3. Tick "Enable Telnet" option
4. Use Telnet to connect to your Router telnet 192.168.1.1 and enter admin and the same password as above
5. Enter the following command to temporarily disable 5 GHz band:
• root@RBR50:/# ip link set down dev $(config get wl5g_NORMAL_AP)
6. Do the device settings that you want to do, then enable the 5 GHz band again using the following command:
• root@RBR50:/# ip link set up dev $(config get wl5g_NORMAL_AP)