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App won’t let me save device names
So for a while now my Netgear app won’t let me save custom names to devices. It used to save them fine and one day it stopped working. It’ll change the name then when I save and refresh the network m...
After I installed Genie app and used it to set up the device names, the Nighthawk mobile app sees them without any problem, even after router is rebooted.
Zdblt wrote:
After I installed Genie app and used it to set up the device names, the Nighthawk mobile app sees them without any problem, even after router is rebooted.
Is that the mobile app for Android? Or the desktop app for Windows Macs?
Both go by the "genie" name.
To get the mobile version you need to search for the "apk"
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If you mean the desktop version, Netgear is trying to kill this useful utility, but for the time being you can find it here:
genie | Product | Support | NETGEAR
Be warned that the genie installation file is wrapped up in a RAR archive that you have to decompress.