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Orbi RBK853 with Elgato Key Lights
Hello all. I thought I would share this in case someone else finds it usrful. I recently installed an RBK853 (base + two satelities) in my home (switching from a prior Google WiFi system). Ever...
So just an update on my end. Enabling IPv6 got the lights to appear sporadically, so that's a piece of it, but still wasn't reliable. But they really don't like working with the ax endpoints at all. I fired up an old airport express, plugged it in with an ethernet cable to the satellite, created an old wifi 4 b/g/n network for them to connect to, and magic, it all works again.
If you have a mesh setup, it depends on which AP you connect through on your laptop or phone, vs. which ones the lights are using. It seems like the v6 briding does not always work reliably over the mesh (lights can be missing). If they are all on the same AP, it works a treat.
Cheers,
Dave
Yeah, mine were on the same AP as my computer, but they are on 2.4 and the computer is 5, and connectivity was intermittent (they'd show up then disappear in control center). Putting them on a separate 2.4 b/g/n network plugged into the AP made it all work. It's possible they would have stabilized...maybe i was just impatient :-).
I figured out how to turn on ipv6 and still preserve/force use of my own pihole for dns blocking (that was a bit of an adventure). Was rather surprised it was hidden in advanced rather than just on the regular wireless pages.
And I can confirm the issue with packets not routing between the AP's - I have that problem with airplay/itunes/appleTV's a lot. The ax units are definitely better than the ac ones, and your hint about ipv6 also seems to have helped that work better too (may be anecdotal).
It's disappointing that elgato is flaky like this (and doesn't document that ipv6 is required), and disappointing that orbi still has issues routing the packets properly.
All's well that ends well, thanks for the original pointer.