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How to conifgure smart light bulbs with Nighthawk MR60
I'm afraid of the answer I'm going to get...but can you configure smart light bulbs with the Nighthawk MR60? They almost all require 2.4ghz (at least to initially connect). This also requires the mob...
I'm having the same problem with a Wi-Fi camera. Setup is supposed to be done by connecting your smartphone to a 2.4GHz access point because 2.4GHz is the only band the camera supports, and completing setup with an app.
I too cannot find any way to temporarily disable 5GHz so I can execute the installation. This, I now recognize, is a major ommission by Netgear. I've never had a router or AP where this could not be done.
I had someone suggest disabling "Smart Connect," however, I cannot find any such feature in the browser-based setup. It is mentioned in the MR60 datasheet but is not mentioned in the MR60 users manual.
dacker wrote:This, I now recognize, is a major ommission by Netgear.
No, much more it's a problem your camera maker or the OPs IoT garbage must resolve. Complain with them. All the LAN and Wi-Fi interfaces are connecting to the very same network, the very same broadcast domain, the very same IP subnet. There is _no_ reason for such a requirement!
It's completely irrelevant if a device does only support 2.4 GHz, only 5 GHz, or is an Ethernet connected device.
Appreciate the sentiment, but many low-cost IoT devices use a low-cost wifi chip. That's what makes them low-cost.
And note that this is only an issue for initial setup - once you have connected one of these low-cost IoT devices with their low-cost wifi chips to your mesh network, everything is fine. This is only an issue for the initial configuration.
Googling around shows a few possible solutions, including:
- Using an old phone or tablet that is 2.4GHZ only for the initlal configuration.
- Walking far away until your mobile device switches to the 2.4GHZ network.
- Turniing off your wifi and creating a wifi network with the same name on a mobile hotspot. Typically, mobile hotspots on phones are 2.4GHZ. Then use another device for the initial configuration. Turn off the mobile hotspot and re-enable your mesh wifi.
Zero sentiments. It's my personal time when writing here. After having answered these kind of posts certainly at least a hundred times, ... figure.
The point is you ask the Netgear community, nagging about a feature which does not make any sense on a Mesh system - while these proposed answers are around here in the community for a long time.
The problem is probably not the chip in the bulbs - the problem is most likely simply a poorly implemented discovery App, on a product not fit for purpose.
Provide names: Shop where you bought this, the manufacturer, pointers to the App in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, ...
Complain where you have ordered this bulbs. Head out to the business selling this low-cost crap. They know where they are buying the blubs. It's their business to make the App source working right with Mesh systems in the market for years.
