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Retired_Member's avatar
Retired_Member
Sep 12, 2020

Orbi app and Insights App for iOS

Hi Orbi community,,,,,   On my Router, I have changed the UID.  It is not admin.  I did that for security.   Unfortunatly, the ORBI app and the insights app default to admin.  Hence I cannot use ...
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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Sep 12, 2020
Retired_Member wrote:

On my Router, I have changed the UID.  It is not admin.  I did that for security.

I had wondered what the "downside" of changing the admin UID from "admin" would turn out to be.  So, we have two choices:

  • Go maximum security by changing the UID to something different from "admin" and use only the Orbi web interface, or
  • Leave it set to "admin" and use the Orbi "app" (and Insight).

Since Netgear does not provide an official method of changing the admin UID, my guess is that they have little interest in making other products compatible with a user "hack".

 

As far as I know, there are no Netgear engineers active on the community forums, so the request is unlikely to reach anyone who would be capable of working on it.  Sorry.