Hi all, I'm long time user of merlin and love the work and community here! Apologies for the long post...
Generally, I have no issues running either stock or merlin on my Aimesh nodes (RT-AX3000, RT-AC68U). I always have latest merlin on main router (RT-AX58U).
My issue is very specific to my Apple HomePod Mini's - I have 3 of them (all running latest firmware - but this issue has been bugging me for ages). The issue is intermittent and only impacts the minis connected to the Aimesh nodes. In summary:
Occasionally when i open the mini UI from Apple home app when connected to one node the connection does not complete to a mini on the other node. The app thinks I am not on the network.
This happens when my iphone is connected to the main router or a node that does not have the target mini connected. If i am connected to the node that has the mini on it then - boom - it connects normally.
I can always ping the homepods - even when this issue is occurring. I use the app Net Analyzer to do the testing and the homepods are always 'seen' by the app and can be pinged across the entire Aimesh network
Over the last 2 months I have been running latest stock firmware on the nodes with merlin 386.4 and 386.5 beta on main router and I did not have this issue once and I thought issue resolved but yesterday I completed a dirty upgrade to merlin 386.5 on main router AND also updated my nodes to merlin 386.5. Since then this issue has returned.
To be honest this is a really tricky issue to trouble shoot but my main assumption is that I didn't have the issue when running latest stock on the nodes (even with 386.5 beta on main router).
My next step is going to be a complete reset of main router and nodes - start everything from scratch. Given the situation/assumption above, I will put latest stock f/w on nodes before joining them to a clean/new setup of merlin 386.5 on main router.
So before I start, I have two questions for the community:
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Generally, I have no issues running either stock or merlin on my Aimesh nodes (RT-AX3000, RT-AC68U). I always have latest merlin on main router (RT-AX58U).
My issue is very specific to my Apple HomePod Mini's - I have 3 of them (all running latest firmware - but this issue has been bugging me for ages). The issue is intermittent and only impacts the minis connected to the Aimesh nodes. In summary:
Occasionally when i open the mini UI from Apple home app when connected to one node the connection does not complete to a mini on the other node. The app thinks I am not on the network.
This happens when my iphone is connected to the main router or a node that does not have the target mini connected. If i am connected to the node that has the mini on it then - boom - it connects normally.
I can always ping the homepods - even when this issue is occurring. I use the app Net Analyzer to do the testing and the homepods are always 'seen' by the app and can be pinged across the entire Aimesh network
Over the last 2 months I have been running latest stock firmware on the nodes with merlin 386.4 and 386.5 beta on main router and I did not have this issue once and I thought issue resolved but yesterday I completed a dirty upgrade to merlin 386.5 on main router AND also updated my nodes to merlin 386.5. Since then this issue has returned.
To be honest this is a really tricky issue to trouble shoot but my main assumption is that I didn't have the issue when running latest stock on the nodes (even with 386.5 beta on main router).
My next step is going to be a complete reset of main router and nodes - start everything from scratch. Given the situation/assumption above, I will put latest stock f/w on nodes before joining them to a clean/new setup of merlin 386.5 on main router.
So before I start, I have two questions for the community:
- Has anyone else had this issue (or similar) with Apple homepod minis and managed to solve it?
- Is there any 'advantage' to running merlin on Aimesh nodes vs. stock?
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