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devices not connecting
Hi fellow forumers. I'm a mess! I'm sad, angry, frustrated and close to separating from my Orbi. Here is my story... For a long time my Orbi RBR50 and my two satellites have been working gre...
"The ONLY issue I have is that I can’t go to access control. It seems turned off on the page while every other page tells me it’s set to access allowed. It’s just useful to see which devices have connected in case something is trying to jump on my network."
When you have Circle enabled, access control is not enabled.
Glad you got it all working. Please mark yoru thread as solved so others will know.
Enjoy. :smileywink:
Seems like a project for the weekend! Thanks Fuz, I’m going to give that a try. Stay tuned.
Well that was more than a weekend project... I’ve replaced the cable between one of the satellites, went down a firmware only to get frustrated with the missing devices, powered down the full board to reset ALL devices in house (wall switches, GPO, fans) and did a clean install of the Voxel firmware and reverted back to a clean install of 2.6.1.40 (with everything disconnected) and only a cat6 cable to the router... fingers crossed!
Knock on wood, I slow started adding all the devices and satellites and am currently in a stable setup with one wired and one wireless satellite, all devices recognised and allocated an IP address, Circle and Armor running. Even my notoriously difficult Nest Protects are working!
I think my Biggest learn is that it takes time for for devices to fully boot and get set up, especially with the satellites. Also some devices were only recognised after a couple of days.
I’ve made a backup of the setting, left everything for what it is and seriously knock on wood that this stability maintains.
The ONLY issue I have is that I can’t go to access control. It seems turned off on the page while every other page tells me it’s set to access allowed. It’s just useful to see which devices have connected in case something is trying to jump on my network.
Now my next challenge is to convince Lenovo to disable the random MAC address on their Google Clock so that it doesn’t flood my Circle with new devices.
Anyway, thank all for contributing and encouraging me not to give up on the Orbi :)
Knock on wood, I slow started adding all the devices and satellites and am currently in a stable setup with one wired and one wireless satellite, all devices recognised and allocated an IP address, Circle and Armor running. Even my notoriously difficult Nest Protects are working!
I think my Biggest learn is that it takes time for for devices to fully boot and get set up, especially with the satellites. Also some devices were only recognised after a couple of days.
I’ve made a backup of the setting, left everything for what it is and seriously knock on wood that this stability maintains.
The ONLY issue I have is that I can’t go to access control. It seems turned off on the page while every other page tells me it’s set to access allowed. It’s just useful to see which devices have connected in case something is trying to jump on my network.
Now my next challenge is to convince Lenovo to disable the random MAC address on their Google Clock so that it doesn’t flood my Circle with new devices.
Anyway, thank all for contributing and encouraging me not to give up on the Orbi :)
"The ONLY issue I have is that I can’t go to access control. It seems turned off on the page while every other page tells me it’s set to access allowed. It’s just useful to see which devices have connected in case something is trying to jump on my network."
When you have Circle enabled, access control is not enabled.
Glad you got it all working. Please mark yoru thread as solved so others will know.
Enjoy. :smileywink: