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I've been using the Orbi RBK50 for over a month, and I set up all my connected devices in Netgear's backend admin, with their names and device types. But I find that the selection of types and icons is super limited, especially now that we have so many smart home connected devices.
No smart speakers or soundbars, no smart thermostats/ACs, no smart lights, and so much more. I was using a TP-Link router before and they had some of these already.
I know this is just an interface thing, but it would make recognizing some devices easier and faster, if they're labelled and showing accurately in the admin panel and on the network map.
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Thanks a lot phands for digging into this and figuring it out.
DarkLight_72 mine is RBR40 too. Did you have any luck finding the layout for our version ?
I did some checking, and found that, in file DEV_show_device.htm, there're additional newer devtypes listed, but toggled out by
top.support_new_ntgrtype variable.
I'm not sure if it's safe to switch that flag value to enable the new devtypes.