Monday, August 4th 2025, sometime in the early morning hours pacific (before 8am), I was not at home but was checking on a security camera in the room the router is in. I normally have the LEDs OFF, so I noticed the LEDs were doing the "FIRE" animation. I also noticed anything on the wireless networks of this router were offline.

Once I got home to assess, I could not even get into the router to troubleshoot. I had to THEN reboot it and THEN was able to log in through the IP of the router. It has completely factory reset.

I have no idea what the firmware was prior to this. The current firmware that's on there now, 1.2.1 Build 20250610 rel.39070(5553) is what was there when I was able to log in. I don't know if this was the firmware prior to this happening or not. I also could not access any logs (I have an SSD attached) as there were none to see.

Now, I DID notice some new options/features, but I already had the new red/gaming UI prior to this, and I recall updating the router firmware maybe a month ish ago, which brought this new red/UI.

I do have the router set to auto update, so perhaps that's what occurred -- the router did auto update, but something got tangled up causing the router to reset? OR was this supposed to happen -- meaning that this update have to FORCE a factory reset? I don't see TPLINK doing that, though.

I guess I am just asking if this has happened to someone else on this specific router or any other router.