@PBGBBB2020 

it can't do that yet.  That feature was announced as part of the new SDN and was supposed to be available in 2020 but it didnt ship.  We did just get the ability to manually scan from the APs, so i assume that was part of the groundwork for a more advanced automatic feature.

Hi @PBGBBB2020,

As @mackworth said, the SDN does not yet have the advertised capabilities.  It's also still not entirely clear what features will be offered for free on the on premise installed versions of SDN versus the future cloud deployments (which are subscription based, I think).

Regardless, the per EAP automatic channel selection, should, in theory, choose the least occupied channels on their own.  But, I too, have found that this Algorithm doesn't always seem to pick the same channel choices as I do when using inSSIDER or Airwatch or similar.

Generally speaking, your knowledge of the environment will often prevail.

That said, I've experimented with both manually setting channels and using the current generic "auto channel" capability (that all AP's have) and haven't seen significant differences in performance.  But my residential environment is not very crowded and my neighbor's AP's are fairly far away / fairly weak.

-Jonathan

@PBGBBB2020 

Interesting. So it doesnt seem like there is any benefit, at least for now, to using the SDN or even buying the OC200, besides that it gives you a central management interface? I had thought it was going to control and modulate AP parameters based on the evironment to give optimal performance. Man I wish I didnt spend so much time getting the SDN up and running on my raspberry pi...

@PBGBBB2020 It is required for 802.11k/v roaming support.

@PBGBBB2020 

Keep in mind that the TP-Link EAP business product line is not really mean for home power users -- though many of us use it that way.  It's really designed for small, medium, and large business deployments (many of which are in Asia and Europe).

So the main utility of Omada / SDN is really for the central management of large fleets of EAPs -- e.g. deployment, configuration, monitoring, firmware updates, etc.

The fact that TP-Link gives away this software / capabilities for free with such a value priced  and performant product line is really exceptional in the industry.

-Jonathan