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Ring Live Stream Doesn't Work With Orbi
I have tried everything to get the Orbi to work correctly with Ring doorbell live stream. I tried the latest firmware / downgrading / installing the custom firmware from Voxel. I then tried everthing...
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I've noticed a direct correlation between the motion zone setting and time it takes to activate live view.
- when motion zone is set at a minumum distance/deactivated, I can access live view in about 2 seconds, consistently.
- when motion zone distance increased, it took me longer to access live view
- when motion zone was set a maximum distance, very rarely was I able to access live view. I had to keep reconnecting until finally, after multiple attempts, I can access live view.
So just an update... I was successful getting live stream to work using additional third party access points. The ones I originally used are the Apple Airport routers in bridge mode. The issue with this was congestion. I needed 2 additional networks on top of my orbi / ISPs wifi. So now I decided to just use my ISPs built in wifi. Doing this, It works near instantly. When connected to the RBR50 or RBS50 the live stream just stops working correctly. It works sometimes / then you try again it doesn't work. My ring devices are GEN 1 only 2.4ghz not dualband doorbells. I have three of them. So now I have my Altice Wifi (ISP) for just the Ring devices since you cant disable wifi on there gateway anyway. I wish that netgear & Ring would get together to fix this problem. Its rediculous that you need aditional hardware to get a security doorbell camera to work with the Orbi system. This has caused me to not recommend the orbi system to my family & friends. I have tried all those tricks of disabling motion zones / just naming my SSID & password numbers & letter / Disabling / Renabling MU-MIMO / Fast Roaming / Implicit Beamforming.. The best thing that issued the most successful start of a livestream was disabling WMM on the 2.4ghz band. Problem with this is it locks the 2.4ghz band to 54mpbs. Even doing this the livestream was still hit or miss.