Summary: hAP ax Lite (running ROS 7.17.2) “station bridge” mode does not work with RB951G running ROS 6.49.17. It connects but only passed data intermittently if I use “station pseudobride” mode.
Details: I want to use an hAP ax Lite in a location near a Schlage Encode Plus Wi-Fi lock. I note that when this lock is connected via Wi-Fi to a RB951G (or UI) or an hAP ac Lite, the Wi-FI never goes idle (Last Activity timer in wifi registration) for more than 300 msec. This causes the batteries of the lock to totally run down in 3 weeks. (They should last 6 months.) If the lock is connected to an hAP ax Lite, the Wi-Fi will go idle for 300 seconds before waking up. It was not easy to run an ethernet cable to near the lock, so I wanted to use “station bridge” mode to make the hAP ax Lite into a repeater.
I tested the configuration with the hAP ax Lite connecting to a Mikrotik Audience running ROS 7.17.1. (Observation: the hAP ax Lite needed to be configured to run the radio in N mode. If using AX in “Station Bridge” the radio would repeatedly restart with error code 8 in the log. Once in N mode, the hAP ax Lite worked properly as a repeater when in “station bridge” mode.)
I then attempted to connect the hAP ax Lite to a RB951G (because that is what the customer has at their location). No luck. The ax would connect successfully to the RB951, but it would not pass any traffic, nor pull an IP address via DHCP. After much troubleshooting I discovered that if I used “station pseudobridge” mode on the ax instead of “station bridge” mode, it works, but only very intermittently.
Is there a way to get this to work reliably?
Is this a known issue? Is it related to ROS versions or is it related to chipset or driver issues?