Just to make sure (and, I might have been blind and missed the answer in the earlier parts of the thread): Have you ever gone into the router's web admin page, click on Attached Devices, and then click on at least one device on your network, and change the Device Model, Device Name and Device Type settings from the screen that would show up? If you didn't, these variables might have never been created because the router didn't need them. Since I have done this for every single device on my network, something like ~50-55 devices by now, I do see them in my "nvram show" output: 54 names and 11 types, actually. And, that is a bit strange. I did a nvram show on another switch that I properly and manually typed as switch, but its data doesn't have a orbi_dev_type_ntgrXX associated with its MAC address althought it has orbi_dev_name_ntgrXX. So, there must also be some other way each device's type is known to the router. Weird.
Oh, yes. The reason I dread a "factory reset" is that I have (a) assigned IP addresses, (b) given specific names, and (c) changed the device type spelling (and icon) on over 30 devices.
I just now did a telnet to my Orbi router and entered
config get orbi_dev_type_ntgr2
and got... nothing. tried a bunch of other numbers as well, such as 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 31.
And, when I do nvram show there is not a single line spelled orbi_dev_type_ntgrxx. Not one.
I realize that the integer "numbers" are related to icon files. Would be interesting to see where the heck they are.
Oh, yes. The reason I dread a "factory reset" is that I have (a) assigned IP addresses, (b) given specific names, and (c) changed the device type spelling (and icon) on over 30 devices.
Oh, yes. The reason I dread a "factory reset" is that I have (a) assigned IP addresses, (b) given specific names, and (c) changed the device type spelling (and icon) on over 30 devices.
I just now did a telnet to my Orbi router and entered
config get orbi_dev_type_ntgr2
and got... nothing. tried a bunch of other numbers as well, such as 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 31.
And, when I do nvram show there is not a single line spelled orbi_dev_type_ntgrxx. Not one.
I realize that the integer "numbers" are related to icon files. Would be interesting to see where the heck they are.
Do you have any orbi_dev_nameXX and orbi_dev_name_ntgrXX? If so, I wonder if at times the icon implies the type. In which case, why do I even have ANY orbi_dev_type_ntgrXX variables. Lol!
This is the key to my problem. How can some of you have a variable named orb_dev_typexx and I do not?
My orbi_dev_name_ntgrxx entries have the MAC address, followed by a number, followed by a description. I believe the number is an index into the table of device icons.
I don’t have any orb_dev_typexx parameters with values. I believe those will be set when using certain devices like managed switches. The device icon is included in the parameter orbi_dev_name_ntgrxx.
rbi_dev_name_ntgr3=”7C:E9:D3:99:A3:03 27 HP LaserJet 400 M451dw”
The 27 in the above command means printer. The known types are as follows: 0 Orbi Satellite 17 iPhone 27 Printer 14 iPad 28 Repeater 23 Media Device 5 Apple Airport 24 Network Device 29 Satellite STB 41 Apple TV 7 Bridge 35 TV 22 MacBook 9 Camera 13 iMac 6 Blu Ray 38 Windows PC 2 Android Device
I guess that the orb_dev_typexx parameter specifies sub types for certain devices and they will only appear if you use such devices, like managed switches.
Many thanks to this thread. I too was plagued by the problem of not being able to change the manufacturer name and icon for my connected devices. So after telneting into the router, I discovered that it was only assigning a name to each device and not creating a "orbi_dev_name_ntgrxx" associated with it. And of course I didn't want to do a full reset and lose everything I'd already configured. So I added them all manually and now they can be changed via the GUI. During this process I discovered a couple new icons (42 & 43) and below is the complete table:
Just to put an update on this thread: Since my last post here, I have added a bunch of devices to my network, and rather randomly either the Device Model (orbi_dev_name_ntgrXX; I am up to XX=66) and/or the Device Type (orbi_dev_type_ntgrXX) on the Edit Device page didn't result in the correct setting actually taking place, therefore requiring me to go through telnet to create/set the proper config variables. I had also created a support case for this exact issue the first time I had run into it (Case #41517573), but as soon as I "fixed" it manually via telnet and config variable shenanigans, it got closed.
I am not sure if the firmware dev team even has this on their radar, but they absolutely should. This is clearly a bug in the firmware code dealing with the creation of these config variables. It must be error'ing out at certain device names/types or at a certain XX value, or some local buffer is just not big enough and the config creation code is running out of space while trying to do the right thing.
Therefore, I am tagging @Blanca_O. This really does need to be escalated.
I have the same issue. Using the genie interface leads to some devices refusing to accept the device name I enter or not switching to the icon I chose. In the Android app, it readily accepts the name, but sometimes won't display the icon I selected and revert back to whatever it was before I saved.
(Also, changing icons in the Android app updates the icons in the genie interface, but the only problem is that some icons just revert back mysteriously in Android.)
I can comfirm this issue on my RBR20. Changing the Device Type icon used to work until the most recent firmware update. All the device types I set prior to the latest update are still there, I just can't change one. I can however change the device name, just not the type. It's stuck on Network Device.
I can comfirm this issue on my RBR20. Changing the Device Type icon used to work until the most recent firmware update. All the device types I set prior to the latest update are still there, I just can't change one. I can however change the device name, just not the type. It's stuck on Network Device.
Can you please try to change the device type to something different than what it was before the upgrade, save it, then change it again to what it was before the upgrade!
So if you have an iPhone then change it first to say Bridge, save it, then change it again back to iPhone, will this work?
No, this does not work. It does not work because the firmware is ignoring any attempt to change the device type of any device. The type information is not being persisted.
I see some, but not all, of my devices. One example of a connected device not in the dump below has MAC address: 14:59:C0:34:36:B7. There are many more missing.
More information: Interestingly, for those connected devices whose MAC addresses DO appear in the telnet dump, I CAN edit their device type successfully.
Conversely, for the several connected devices that are missing from the dump, those types cannot be edited.
More information: Interestingly, for those connected devices whose MAC addresses DO appear in the telnet dump, I CAN edit their device type successfully.
Conversely, for the several connected devices that are missing from the dump, those types cannot be edited.
Ok, can you see those missing devices when you do the following listing with the following command?
No, I cannot see them. Please read all my posts on this issue. The most recent contains more complete information. It shows two Roku devices and the NVRAM differences between them.
Same here. This is after the latest firmware upgrade. The bad thing is that support simply does not reply to my request, even when I remind them. I have not found the solution, also in the webbrowser will the system replace the icon back to the old setting. Very annoying this.
I don't feel this is a good suggestion. I don't feel comfotable making changes to the router configuration outside the context of the production admin interface. I am thus reporting this issue here as a firmware bug, and will wait for future release to correct it.
