Almond+ temperamental in Range Extender mode

[joltdude]

Anyone else have problems with the Almond+ in range extender mode... Made the mistake of trying to change to 20/40mhz bandwidth .. router will lockup and will not want to reboot... had to reboot it twice to get it to recognize the reset button... Also had a similar issue with disappearing 5g networks, and problems with lockups if you misenter the wpa2 key while trying to link in range extender mode...

Almond+ doesnt like settings changed once youve established the Range Extender connection...
Really needs to fail gracefully with misentered wpa2 keys as well as if the link breaks... and that 20/40 switch thing.. Ouch...

Would like a complete reset settings and wipe option buried in the touchscreen UI as well... perhaps require a pin code or something to actually execute it..

[LGNilsson]

Hmmm, this should clearly not be happening.
The reset is done via the reset button on the top of the Almond+ - http://wiki.securifi.com/index.php?title=Hardware_reset_button_-_Almond%2B_2014
It won't remove sensors or the cloud account and as far as I'm aware, it shouldn't be deleting rules either, but it'll wipe all other settings.

[joltdude]

Actually I ended up opening a ticket on the 20/40 switch while in Range Extender mode locking up the Almond.. Seems it might be reproducible ..

Not sure why the reset button didnt take on the first try... plugged it in while holding it down.. the first time it just froze.... waited a bit when it wasn't moving...

Unplugged it again.. let the screen blink then held it down for 10 sec... Got a dialog box saying resetting.. waited roughly 30min.. said forget it.. rebooted it again and didnt touch anything... slight delay but the router came back up and finally showed the home screen... went to the web UI, set the timezone, and did a reset to defaults and seems ok since..

[erikboehringer]

i have had the exact same issues as described here, AND i am unable to update to R072 from R070 from within the LCD panel.

[LGNilsson]

Please contact the support team, as I don't have the slightest idea what's going on in either case, as we haven't come across this before.

[johno]

I too am unable to update from the LCD UI. I have two Almonds, one is connected in range extender mode and the other connects to the modem, the one acting as a range extender states that it has no internet connection yet I can connect to the router web interface from a computer connected to the other Almond and devices connected to the range extender can access the internet..

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root@AlmondPlus:~# ifconfig
br-lan    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          inet addr:192.168.1.3  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e085:fff:fed1:2f48/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3359546 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:205479135 (195.9 MiB)  TX bytes:2894657 (2.7 MiB)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:69

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2560793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2972556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:391678138 (373.5 MiB)  TX bytes:579020311 (552.1 MiB)
          Interrupt:70

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:15491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:15491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1095136 (1.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1095136 (1.0 MiB)

sta_wlan100 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          inet6 addr: fe80::e671:85ff:fe31:2b3f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:3 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1023
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:96 Memory:a5800000-a5a00000

wlan00    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xxxxxxxxxxx
          inet6 addr: fe80::e671:85ff:fe31:2b38/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:11775 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


[erikboehringer]

i was finally able to update via the LCD, but now i am having rule problems.

i have not jacked with my wifi settings in extender mode since everything is working (for now)