So, update.

I upgraded from 2.9.8 (or whatever) to 3.1.2, and it was fine. I then lost power in the house.

The 5ghz band and items came up fine, but my 2.4ghz band would not come back. No lights/switches would come online. I tried power cycling (the lights), re-scanning in my light app, rebooting the router (edgerouter and AMPLIFI bridge), and could not bring it back.

At this time, there were some odd SSIDs - Dynamic-user-ac-5ghz and -n-2ghz

I then wanted to try a dedicated 2.4 SSID, which I had to upgrade to the current firmware. It kept giving me “bad password” for the WPA. I tried to turn off steering, it did nothing. When I turned on steering again, my house came back alive.

After updating, dynamic user was gone.

So, tonight when the kids were all sleeping, I figured I’d try to live with 3.4.3, and set some things in the webpage. I believe it was neighbor report, bss, and one other.

The router rebooted, and I lost all 2.4 again. I turned off band steering, and my router then lost all connectivity to the app. I was able to get online fine, and used my pc to browse the lan page - only to find that it was now stuck on DHCP again. I was able to use the app again, and it showed my SSID was blank. I reset it back, and the odd ssids were gone again.

Band steering was still off, and no 2.4 ghz were connecting. I turned it back on, and things are now starting to reconnect.

Is this normal behavior? Should I have to disable/enable band steering to kick on the 2.4 band? Anyone have experience with this product and many IOT devices?

I am currently running 3.4.3 on the mesh points/mesh router, and 3.1.2 on the main router in bridge mode. So far, it seems OK (after only a half of a day), but I can continue to access the router interface. I manually reset a few lights (granted, not my entire house at once) and they came back online without issue.

Issues with 3.4.3? Bad unit?

Amplifi Alien 3.4.3 WiFi range 1foot