ET8 stuck as node "Unable to connect to the Parent AP." despite factory reset

[gommm]

I bought two refurbished Zenwifi ET8. One works perfectly. The other one apparently was configured as a aiMesh node and is complaining about not finding his parent.

I did factory reset with the needle. I did a factory reset with the WPS button using this method https://www.asus.com/us/support/faq/1046973/
I rebooted in recovery mode and flashed the latest firmware.

No matter what I do when I try to connect to it I get the very unhelpful error "Unable to connect to the Parent AP."

How do I convert it into a normal AP?

Would flashing gnuton's merlin build in recovery mode solve this?

 

[OzarkEdge]

I bought two refurbished Zenwifi ET8. One works perfectly.

How are you using the one that works and is it running when you work on the second one?

And, how do you want to use the second one?

OE

 

[gommm]

On the one that works, I'm using it directly as an AP with gnuton's merlin fork for the ET8 and mervlan. Out of the box, there was no issue setting it up. Just connected to it went to 192.168.50.1

The other refurbished ET8 apparently was paired out of the box and complains about not finding it's parent's AP. I'd like it to be factory reset so that I can go to 192.168.50.1, set up the merlin firmware, set it up as an AP and install mervlan.

The problem is that when I connect to it, I see that "Unable to connect to the Parent AP error message but can't login at all.

 

[degrub]

Sounds like you need to talk with the seller.