Wireless shows offline

[EventPhotoMan]

Hmmmmm

running 384.19 on an rt-ac86u in access point mode. And I looked at the wireless logs.
the log says the device is offline. But it’s not. WemoBackYardPumps is working well.
Any suggestion?

 

[OzarkEdge]

Hmmmmm

running 384.19 on an rt-ac86u in access point mode. And I looked at the wireless logs.
the log says the device is offline. But it’s not. WemoBackYardPumps is working well.
Any suggestion?

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I don't know what it is but it appears to only be ON 4 minutes a day and happens to be ON 1 minute right when you checked it. So, maybe it is mostly OFF and mostly offline.

OE

 

[EventPhotoMan]

I don't know what it is but it appears to only be ON 4 minutes a day and happens to be ON 1 minute right when you checked it. So, maybe it is mostly OFF and mostly offline.

OE

Your looking at the second picture, which shows my wemo switch... always on-line, but I just turned the switch on then off again to make sure I was connected to it and had control of it.

Funny how the router shows some of my Wemo switches off line, but connected.

 

[EventPhotoMan]

I don't know what it is but it appears to only be ON 4 minutes a day and happens to be ON 1 minute right when you checked it. So, maybe it is mostly OFF and mostly offline.

OE

Here is another shot. Still showing offline. Even thou I can use the device.

 

[OzarkEdge]

Here is another shot. Still showing offline. Even thou I can use the device.

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Asus client lists are not reliable. Probably even less so with some IoT clients.

OE

 

[RMerlin]

offline generally means that device has no known IP address.

 

[EventPhotoMan]

offline generally means that device has no known IP address.

How is the IP address not know when the access point in question is connected to it, and communicating to it?

 

[EventPhotoMan]

I just checked again... no change.

 

[RMerlin]

How is the IP address not know when the access point in question is connected to it, and communicating to it?

Because the DHCP server is running on a different device.

 

[EventPhotoMan]

Because the DHCP server is running on a different device.

Then why are the other devices correctly showing?

 

[cooloutac]

How is the IP address not know when the access point in question is connected to it, and communicating to it?

try giving them a static ip from the router and see what happens. Like Ozark I find the lists unreliable. But you are right that is strange if it never shows them offline. But it is also strange it shows it only on for 1 minute.

 

[RMerlin]

Then why are the other devices correctly showing?

Actually, clients the router has no knowledge of will report "<unknown>", not "offline". Offline is the state returned by networkmap, and only Asus knows what networkmap does these days...

 

[EventPhotoMan]

try giving them a static ip from the router and see what happens. Like Ozark I find the lists unreliable. But you are right that is strange if it never shows them offline. But it is also strange it shows it only on for 1 minute.

In regards to the Wemo switch... I turned it on (120volts switch) with the wemo app and then off again. This is why the app shows it was on for only a minute. The wemo switch is still on-line 24/7, just not for my back yard pumps , that it controls. Two different things.

 

[techcafe]

Hmmmmm

running 384.19 on an rt-ac86u in access point mode. And I looked at the wireless logs.
the log says the device is offline. But it’s not. WemoBackYardPumps is working well.
Any suggestion?

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the same thing occurs with my AC86U in AP mode. devices will sometimes appear as being offline even though they are actually connected and using the internet.

in the router UI, click on Network Map, then View List or Client device map and wait a few seconds for the client list to update (you can also press the Refresh button under Client status), then go back to Wireless Log, the 'offline' devices will now show an IP address.

 

[EventPhotoMan]

[QUOTE="techcafe, post: 638567, member:
in the router UI, click on Network Map, then View List or Client device map and wait a few seconds for the client list to update (you can also press the Refresh button under Client status), then go back to Wireless Log, the 'offline' devices will now show an IP address.
[/QUOTE]
Thank you very much! But this is an access point.

 

[techcafe]

my RT-AC86U is also setup in AP mode