Please add change wifi without reset.

Yes, reconfiguring all cameras from beginning just due to change of SSID is not so good.

  @Home_Cameras 

Unbelievable that this has been an issue for this long and for so many and TP-Link just ignores it. When I have bought the Tapos I coudn't imagine that it would NOT be able to change the WiFi SSID... Until I now, when have a need to do it.

 

My situation is that I have several Tapo-cameras (different models) and some are at the edge of the WiFi range. Now I thought that I solve it by buying the TP-LINK RE705X AX3000 WiFi Extender. But the extender renames the extended WiFi to <SSID>_EXT. No problem I thought; I just change the SSID in the cameras needed. But no it wasn't that easy. And resetting all needed cameras is not that easy 🤬

Hi @grimur,

 

I think TP-LInk are ignoring everything posted here because this thread already has an accepted solution.

 

I suspect they haven't closed the thread to new posts because it's a convenient sink-hole for anyone else wanting to report the same issue.

 

You might be better off raising the issue as a new Feature Request. At least then TP-Link would have to respond - or ACTIVELY ignore it.

 

 

That said:

I went down the wi-fi extender rabbit hole too.

I even bought some TP-Link extenders, though this turned out to be a huge mistake for a different reason.

(TP-Link do VERY weird stuff with all/any extended MAC addresses, making it almost impossible to use a MAC address "white-list" to secure the wi-fi network. You never know what "virtual" MAC address the extender will assign to a device connected to it)

 

However, and whilst I don't have the exact same model extender as you, the ones I bought did allow me to change the name of the extended network's SSID from the default of "_EXT". (Though you might only get chance to do that during the initial set-up, and not afterwards)

 

 

 

 

 

  @AAAAAAAAAAAAAAX 

 

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  @CCCCCCCCX 

Spamming  the Forum (and subsequently everyone else here who gets a notification of a new reply) is not helpful and does you no credit whatsoever!

I don't appreciate getting 11 identical emails from your fake accounts!

 

If you're not happy witht the situation, CREATE A NEW TOPIC!  This one is not getting answers as it has been replied to back in 2024 by TP-Link staff!

  @TheMav 

 

Screw it! Join in haha!

 

WIFI!