ssh access is useless
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I thought I might be able to use ssh from another machine to schedule regular reboot of the AP, but it turns out that although the username is "root", I'm somehow logged in as a privilege-starved "guest" user.
What exactly is the use case for ssh if you can't do anything useful with it.
Can you give us a little information about your setup, I have both 225v3 and 245v3s in my setup with a multiide of wireless devices connecting over 3 VLANs and some are heavy users without any instabilities and no need to reboot anyu of them.
Given you said you don't want to use the Omada controller, one assumes you only have a single device - how many concurrent devices does it support or how many connections daily?
As far as i know SSH is there for the controllers to talk to each other or for the Omada to talk to them, I'm going to guess scheduled reboots just trigger a cron job on the controller to reboot the AP on demand, however i've not looked that deep in to it
Below is one of my APs.
SSH access once allowed to execute any command on an EAP as root until TP-Link changed this for reasons unknown to me. This change not only affects Omada EAPs, but also Pharos products.
Unfortunately, I was not able to convince R&D to reverse this firmware changes (see this thread).
Regarding daily reboots:
Our EAPs at various customer sites with high number of daily users run very stable over a long time (as it should be). If there would be no firmware updates requiring reboots or no power failures causing a reboot then and when, EAPs and our own gateway would run for years w/o a problem. We have older EAP110/225 which receive no more updates and which run just fine for long times:
Maybe that buggy firmwares of other vendor's APs exhaust their system resources over short time spans so that they need daily reboots, but EAPs definitely do not require scheduled reboots.
Of course, if EAPs would run an embedded firmware made by Microsoft, I would reboot them every hour just as a precaution. ;-)