topic Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID in My Router

Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Foxy-Stoat — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:57:12 GMT

Afternoon,

Have just received the Hub 2 and will be installing it tomorrow. Have had a quick look around the settings of my Hub 1 (just to know where I'm going, not to change anything) but can't find anywhere to change the SSID. I figured changing the Hub 2's SSID to that of the Hub 1 would be the way to go so that I don't need to re-add all of my devices but need a bit of a road map to tell me where to go to do this. Thanks in advance, 👍

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

198kHz — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:24:17 GMT

Home page >> Advanced Settings >> Wireless

EDIT: Sorry, I may have misconstrued what you wanted. To clarify, the above refers to the Hub 2.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Foxy-Stoat — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:01:25 GMT

Excellent, cheers. Will be plugging in the hub 2 and giving it the hub 1 ssid so I don't have to add my devices.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Correlated — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 13:08:43 GMT

You've probably found this out already but you will need to re-add all your devices anyway if you have been using the default Hub 1 wifi password.

The hub 2 will not allow the old hub 1 wifi password as it is not secure enough, apparently.

Should be able to set what password I want but there we go.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Baldrick1 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:11:40 GMT

@Correlated wrote
The hub 2 will not allow the old hub 1 wifi password as it is not secure enough, apparently.

Should be able to set what password I want but there we go.

Really? Are you sure it’s not an advisory only?

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Foxy-Stoat — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 15:31:39 GMT

I can tell you it's an advisory as i changed it no hassle. Yes, it did indicate that the Hub 1 password may not be very strong but it let me proceed and i have had to re-add nothing apart from 3 Google Nests as the channels were split on the Hub 1 and as that can't be done on the Hub 2 they couldn't find my split 5ghz channel. Apart from that, easy as peas.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

198kHz — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:59:56 GMT

@Correlated wrote:

The hub 2 will not allow the old hub 1 wifi password as it is not secure enough, apparently

My original wireless key was 10 characters long, but the Hub 2 insisted I use a minimum of 14.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

jab1 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:03:30 GMT

@198kHz You think 14 is a lot? My FritzBox one is 20 characters!!

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Correlated — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:19:46 GMT

It wasn't advisory, it wouldn't let me change it.

As already posted by someone else:

"My original wireless key was 10 characters long, but the Hub 2 insisted I use a minimum of 14."

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Foxy-Stoat — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:35:35 GMT

And as i sit here now, typing this, i'm telling you it let me do it. I went into the settings of the HUB 2, i changed the SSID to that of the HUB 1, i entered the password, it told me it wasn't strong enough, i clicked on continue, i'm running the HUB 2 on the SSID and password of the HUB 1.

The only thing that doesn't transfer is the ADMIN Password, this will still have to be the password of the Hub 2, regardless of the SSID.

I'm not making this up, and as i had to ask for directions in the first place........

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Correlated — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:52:01 GMT

Maybe your hub1 password was 14 characters or more then.

Mine wasn't.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Foxy-Stoat — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:03:29 GMT

Nope, 10, didn't even have to look as I know it off by heart. And yes, just checked the password on the Hub 2 is 14.

Don't know how I've got away with this but I have. Like I said, only had the put in the Hub 2 ADMIN password after the SSID change.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

bobpullen — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:28:15 GMT

@Correlated wrote:

"My original wireless key was 10 characters long, but the Hub 2 insisted I use a minimum of 14."

Not my experience. I'm using a 10 character WPA-PSK password without issue.

Yes, there's a warning but there's an option to proceed regardless.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Correlated — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:51:05 GMT

No idea - when I clicked okay or continue when changing the password to something less than 14 characters it just reverted back to the default wifi password.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

198kHz — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 20:59:38 GMT

@Correlated Yep, same here. It absolutely refused to accept anything less than 14 characters, even if they complied with upper and lower case, special character, no repeat characters etc.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Foxy-Stoat — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:08:24 GMT

No idea what's going on here and how some of us are doing it and some aren't.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Baldrick1 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:16:17 GMT

Mine’s using 10 characters quite happily.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

bobpullen — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:45:05 GMT

@Foxy-Stoat wrote:
No idea what's going on here and how some of us are doing it and some aren't.

Indeed.

Throughout the entire pre-launch development of the device, I have used Wi-Fi passwords < 14 characters and not once have I encountered a problem. That's across countless factory resets, different units and multiple firmware builds

Edit: No mixed case, or special characters either.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

198kHz — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:12:26 GMT

Oops, mea culpa - sorry folks for confusing the issue.

I misinterpreted this:

as meaning that I could either <Accept> that the key had been rejected and start from scratch later, or <Retry>.

I kept opting for <Retry>, therefore going round in circles and concluding, erroneously, that 10 characters would never work.

Re: Changing The Hub 2 SSID

Baldrick1 — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 21:12:35 GMT

@198kHz

Thanks for clearing that up.