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RBR750 Using Orbi app to manage units in two locations
Have identical RBR750 units with 1 satellite in two separate locations. Setup the first without issue. Tried to setup second unit with a different Network name for the other location, but instead the app used the info from the first location, thereby creating the identical configuration in both locations. I know (I think) that I can reconfigure one or the other from the web, and resolve the issue, but that more or less renders the ORBI app as useless. Am I missing something within the ORBI app?
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Yes, the Orbi 'app' can configure lots of systems (I have never seen documentation of "how many") The only issues I have seen described on the Forum are:
- The Orbi 'app' has only one set of login credentials. Thus every system must be connected to that user login.
(There was a very disappointed post from a commercial installer who wanted to have one version of the app manage a dozen clients but did not want to share his personal login with all of them - or to all all of them to tinker with each other's system.) - The app (at least the Android version) displays the model number of the Orbi router, rather than the "Name" that the user configured for the router:
Thus, with two 750 systems both will appear as RBR750. Maybe one will always appear above the other (or maybe not. I've never configured multiple systems on one Orbi 'app'.
- The Orbi 'app' has only one set of login credentials. Thus every system must be connected to that user login.
