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Had to reinstall Orbi phone app and only option is to reinstall the entire network

Pkoteras
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Had to reinstall Orbi phone app and only option is to reinstall the entire network

I have an RBS 750 Mesh system and my app on my phone started crashing so I reinstalled it.  However the only option when trying to use the app is to reinstall the entire network.  Because all of our smart devices and entertainment runs through this network, I do not want to resetup the network.  I've accidentally done that before and it took a week to get everything in the house reinstalled properly to the network.  How do you tell the app that you already have an existing network you want to manage?  Seems idiotic to have to reinstall the entire network everytime you had to reinstall the app.

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CrimpOn
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Re: Had to reinstall Orbi phone app and only option is to reinstall the entire network

Can you log into the existing Netgear account?  (The login link may be in tiny print compared to the "Set up a New System" link.)

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Pkoteras
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Re: Had to reinstall Orbi phone app and only option is to reinstall the entire network

I can login to the account no problem, but when the app starts, there is only one option "setup your orbi" essentially, and when you select that it starts going through install instructions of "restart your broadband router", etc, then goes to "starting up your satellites".  There are no other options in there to click on.  However, with that said, and after trying that several times, the app suddently opened up to management app later when I tried to run it again.  I don't know what fixed it, it just randomly seemed to start working after only giving me the option to setup my network 4 or 5 times in a row, after which I gave up for a while.  

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