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michims
Aspirant
Dec 10, 2016
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Getting Hue Lights to work - activating mDNS?

Hi,

 

I have a Hue bridge (Lighting system) connected to a router in bridge mode. This router is connected via powerline-LAN to the R7000.

The issue: Apple's Siri needs mDNS to work with the Hue bridge and it is enabled on the first router, but not on the R7000 as far as I know.

 

Question: How can I enable mDNS for the Netgear R7000?

 

Latest firmware for R7000 is installed.

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  • michims's avatar
    michims
    Dec 18, 2016

    Thanks for all the replies. I am still very sad regarding the netgear way of supporting their products (eg. not at all) but I'll connect everything to the main router to solve the issue...

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    • michims's avatar
      michims
      Aspirant
      Dec 11, 2016

      That's a really sad solution for a premium router... I read, that Netgear was working on an update to fix this issue - any news on that?

      • TheEther's avatar
        TheEther
        Guru
        Dec 11, 2016

        I haven't run stock firmware in a while, but mDNS just uses IP Multicast to operate.  AFAIK, the R7000 should not block IP Multicast on the LAN.

         

        michims, do you have more details on what the issue might be or where you read that Netgear was working on a fix?