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Update firmware on Mesh Nodes?

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20 Nov 2020 15:22 #97762 by troozers
Replied by troozers on topic Re: Update firmware on Mesh Nodes?
That's what I thought would happen on the 802's as well, not sure why it hasn't happened.

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21 Nov 2020 02:53 #97765 by hornbyp
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As an experiment - I just reset my AP802 ... as in, deleted it from the mesh at the AP903 end, reset its password to "admin/admin", set it to "AP" mode, then finally did a "Factory Reset" by holding down the button.

When I finally got it back in the mesh, the password changed to match the AP903 (I definitely tested "admin/admin" and had been admonished at login time, that it was still set to default)

I didn't manually initiate a 'Config Sync', but the 'Basic Config Sync' happened anyway (I can see my SSIDs etc on the AP802).

In the System Maintenance section of the Basic Configuration Sync function on the AP903, it says:
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9 X_00507F_System.TR069Setting.CPEEnable 1 10 X_00507F_System.SyslogMail.SysLogAccess.SysLogEnable 1


but in the equivalent section on the AP802 (i.e. what its received), it says:
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9 X_00507F_System.TR069Setting.CPEEnable 1 10 X_00507F_System.AdminmodePassword.Admin admin 11 X_00507F_System.SyslogMail.SysLogAccess.SysLogEnable 1


In other words, there is a hidden parameter, that you (seemingly) can't send manually - it looks very much like an Administrator username/password sync to me!

Now I just have to figure out how to get it working in Wired-mesh mode again :roll:

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21 Nov 2020 03:29 #97766 by hornbyp
Replied by hornbyp on topic Re: Update firmware on Mesh Nodes?

hornbyp wrote:
Now I just have to figure out how to get it working in Wired-mesh mode again :roll:


Good job I'd used the "Backup Mesh Config" option, because it was proving rather difficult to manually get back to my starting point :cry:

Anyway, with AP903 + AP802 back in wired-uplink Mesh mode, I tried changing the password on the AP903 (to admin/admin). I logged out and that was the username/password I needed to log back in again. I logged out of the AP802 and needed to use admin/admin on there too.
I then reset the AP903's password to something more secure and found that it had changed back on the AP802 as well.

This syncing of username/password happened without me running either of the Mesh Config Sync options.

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21 Nov 2020 09:24 #97770 by piste basher
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That's what I found as above. This "auto sync" "feature" is a bit of a pain, as I have an additional 2.4GHz SSID on the router which I don't want on the APs - I have to go round them all manually disabling it :roll:

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22 Nov 2020 11:42 #97775 by troozers
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Well, I've just changed the password on the Mesh Root, and the change was propogated to all of the Mesh Nodes - so, SUCCESS!

I had changed the admin password prior to adding the nodes, and had assumed they would get propogated when adding new nodes. Maybe I needed to give the system a little kick up the proverbials?

Many thanks for the help provided.

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