super TIU mode with new WTIU

Yup - you are entirely correct.  The same thing just happened to me when I tried it just now.  I never tried a second time after getting it to work when I did - guess I was too excited (or my wife yelled at me to come down for dinner).  We need to get some instructions from MTH about how to make the non-master WTIU's have the master WTIU address as their default when they power up.  That would, I think, avoid the tedious step of redoing the WPS connection every time.  One wonders if this could be accomplished with a firmware update?

PRK

I have 3 WTIU’s but I used a router and connected all of the WTIU’s with ethernet cables. This eliminates the WPS issues . I do have to run in super TIU mode. What is interesting is when I power everything up and wait a couple minutes for the blue lights not all of the WTIU’s are read. Sometimes I have to refresh a couple of times to get the app to see all of the WTIU’s.

Rich R

@amtrack5899 posted:

I have 3 WTIU’s but I used a router and connected all of the WTIU’s with ethernet cables. This eliminates the WPS issues . I do have to run in super TIU mode. What is interesting is when I power everything up and wait a couple minutes for the blue lights not all of the WTIU’s are read. Sometimes I have to refresh a couple of times to get the app to see all of the WTIU’s.

Rich R

If you statically assign an IP address to your WTIU's (either with LuCi or through your Router), the WTIUs will always have the same IP address and the app (at least in my experience) always looks at the last known good IP addresses that were assigned to your WTIUs from your previous running session. With static IP addresses, the app will find them faster and more reliably as your WTIUs are always in the same place on your network.

If you assign the WTIU a static IP address in the LuCi console, the bootup time of the WTIU (or WIU) should decrease as the device doesn't have to Request and wait for an IP address to be assigned from your router.

@PRKTRAINS posted:

Thanks so much for this!   i have several really dumb questions.  It sounds like nothing else changes in this setting except for the individual IP addresses for the WTIU’s that will become static, i.e. the other instructions are still valid?

So here are the dumb questions:

#1.  Does each WTIU get its own unique IP address?  

#2. in the vernacular of MTH does that include the “master” WTIU? 

#3: Is it easier to use LUCI or my system router to change the IP’s to static?  (I have no idea how to use my router to assign a static IP address to a WTIU - but come to think of it I have two sons-in-law who are both computer experts!)

Thanks again

PRK

So here's a question......... I want to keep my WTIU's in the same config I have now which is: WITU 1-set to MTH network mode, WTIU 2-set to home mode. I have too much trouble having the WTIU's on my home network. BUT, could I connect the WTIU's together with an Ethernet cable so that they would not have to have the WPS button pressed every time I turn them on? IS this an option, and would it work is the dilemma?

Mike