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How to conifgure smart light bulbs with Nighthawk MR60
I'm afraid of the answer I'm going to get...but can you configure smart light bulbs with the Nighthawk MR60? They almost all require 2.4ghz (at least to initially connect). This also requires the mob...
Zero sentiments. It's my personal time when writing here. After having answered these kind of posts certainly at least a hundred times, ... figure.
The point is you ask the Netgear community, nagging about a feature which does not make any sense on a Mesh system - while these proposed answers are around here in the community for a long time.
The problem is probably not the chip in the bulbs - the problem is most likely simply a poorly implemented discovery App, on a product not fit for purpose.
Provide names: Shop where you bought this, the manufacturer, pointers to the App in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, ...
Complain where you have ordered this bulbs. Head out to the business selling this low-cost crap. They know where they are buying the blubs. It's their business to make the App source working right with Mesh systems in the market for years.
Totally understand. It's just that many of us are new to mesh networks and are surprised to find this feature can actually work against us when we have a variety of smart devices. For example, I came from a previous Netgear router where you can combine the 2.5 and 5 GHZ bands into a single SSID but still manually disable each. Not a mesh network, obviously.
Sometimes, cutting edge can put us a bit too far advanced of the environment it's operating in. :)