Just discovered this issue on a satellite node after spending several hours troubleshooting. Looks like a Costco Replacement is in order. UPDATE: Magically started working again. I might have to do a...

Holocron wrote Today would be a good day for someone at @TP-Link_US to clarify the differences, hardware and functional, between these versions. Today would be a good day for someone at @TP-Link_US...

@xjsimon I too had to manually do the 1.2.8 upgrade. It never showed up in the app for me. The manual update when fine. Results for me remain unclear. I've always wondered why they had the scheduled...

@WYLDSTALLYNS WYLDSTALLYNS wrote @xjsimon Believe my hardware version is 2.6. Bought it recently at Costco. Check the bottom. I was at Costco recently and saw that v1.6 was mixed in with boxes of...

Still waiting on an answer to this. Evidently, a v2.6 node will not pair to a mesh with v1.6 nodes. So there appears to be an inherent incompatibility between these hardware versions.

@xjsimon Can you take a look on the bottom of one of your nodes and see what version it is? Are you running the beta app? I have v1.6 hardware and still not seeing this.