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Orbi & the new Roomba i7+ connectivity
(I apologize for the repost. There was some sort of techinical error with my original post.) We recently purchased a Roomba i7+. We could not get it to connect to Roomba's servers to update it's s...
I am going to describe what I did, and hopefully you can tell me if I did it correctly. I am far from great at this stuff, so I rely on online tutorials.
-I already had different SSID's set up for both routers. I ensured all were on different channels.
-In Orbi, under Advanced>Setup>LAN setup, I changed the Starting and Ending IP address range from 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.254 to 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.250, because something I read said to manually set up an AP, you had to give the AP router an IP address within the same subnet, but outside of the DHCP range of the main router.
-on the 3700, under Advanced>LAN Setup, I entered 10.0.0.254. I turned off UPnP, then I unchecked "Use Router as DHCP Server."
-I then connected a LAN port on the Orbi to a LAN port on the 3700.
What I am seeing now:
-I can successfully connect to the 3700's SSID's, with a working internet connection. I connected my phone and the Roomba to it.
-My phone and the Roomba are connected to the 3700's SSID, but in the Roomba app and on my phone, they show they are connected to Orbi's IP address.
-In Orbi under attached devices, the 3700, the Roomba and my phone are all showing up as WIRED devices connected to the Orbi Router.
The issue with my Roomba still exists.
Let me know if I did something incorrectly.
Yes great work on the 3700. you have it working.
Odd though that the Orbi is using 10. address scheme though, default is 192.168.1...Well if it's working don't bother this.
Lets try adding the IP address for the 3700 in to the Orbi routers DMZ and save settings, reboot the router and 3700 and Roombas.
Devices that are connected to the 3700 will show up as wired devices since the 3700 is actually a wired device connected to the Orbi router, so this is expected and ok.
Hoping this will help. I would recommend that you contact the Mfr of Roomba and give them this thread and see if they have any input. If ALL others devices connect and working with the Orbi and the Roomba is the only device having problems, Both Rooma and NG will need to have a review of this.