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dtay
Aug 23, 2020Luminary
Orbi app not identifying device type/icon correctly
I'm running the latest version of the Orbi app (for Android, from the Google Play Store) with my RBK853 (AX6000) and noticed the app isn't detecting/recognizing a device type correctly. Or actually it's arbitrarily assigning a wrong device type randomly each time when you refresh the list of devices.
Here's an example: I have a Ring Doorbell Pro, and the app sees it as such ("RingPro-8e"), the last two letters being the mac address. However, it says it's a "smart phone" instead of a doorbell (from the list of icons that you can select from). So, from within the app, I select edit, and change the icon type from a smart phone to a doorbell, and then save the changes. It says "device details updated successfully!" but when I launch the app and go view the list of devices, it shows it's a "smart phone again."
Same thing with a Ring Camera; it misidentifes it as "smart phone" but what's more infuriating is that any changes that you made to correct it, isn't being saved!
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