For the past three days (2/11/2020) my IOS app has been giving me a notification that new firmware is available for the RBR50. I go into the app and do a check for new firmware and nothing is available. Next I go into the web interface of the RBR50 and do a check there. Also no new firmware available. I checked the download section on the Netgear site and do not see any firmware newer that the 2.5.1.8 that I have been running for weeks. Anyone else getting this notification?

Make that four days in a row -- got another new firmware notification.

Strange behaviour by NG. I got the notice, and then it was gone a couple of days later. You either release or don’t 👎.

BigRune wrote:Strange behaviour by NG. I got the notice, and then it was gone a couple of days later. You either release or don’t 👎.I have a suspicion that these "new firmware" messages are driven not by new firmware, but by an invalid value in the Orbi internal parameters. When I dump the Orbi parameters, there are over 1,800 of them. Many are pretty obvious, but a lot of them "could be anything, who knows?" I think the Orbi "app" is retrieving some values from the Orbi and comparing them to values from the Netgear web site and inferring, "There must be new firmware. Put up a message." I don't have any iOS devices, and these "firmware update" messages do not appear on the web interface or my Android app. When this message shows up, does it actually list a firmware release number, or simply say, "New Firmware."

It just says new firmware available, not a specific version.

In web interface v2.5.1.8 was listed for both sat and router. Notice in app and web appeared and disappeared at the same time.

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Jetdrive
Luminary
Feb 15, 2020
Make that four days in a row -- got another new firmware notification.
- BigRune
  Apprentice
  Feb 15, 2020
  Strange behaviour by NG. I got the notice, and then it was gone a couple of days later. You either release or don’t 👎.
  - CrimpOn
    Guru - Experienced User
    Feb 15, 2020
    BigRune wrote:
    Strange behaviour by NG. I got the notice, and then it was gone a couple of days later. You either release or don’t 👎.
    I have a suspicion that these "new firmware" messages are driven not by new firmware, but by an invalid value in the Orbi internal parameters. When I dump the Orbi parameters, there are over 1,800 of them. Many are pretty obvious, but a lot of them "could be anything, who knows?" I think the Orbi "app" is retrieving some values from the Orbi and comparing them to values from the Netgear web site and inferring, "There must be new firmware. Put up a message."
    
    I don't have any iOS devices, and these "firmware update" messages do not appear on the web interface or my Android app. When this message shows up, does it actually list a firmware release number, or simply say, "New Firmware."

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