How to setup EAP225s Only MACOS OR iOS devices? No WIN PC or Linux
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Trying to install and setup two EAP225 access points. After install I find that apparently there is NO MAC OS support(!!!) I have iMAC/iPads/iPhones. Where is the workaround to do the initial setup withOUT a PC? Web based? App based? there must be a way to avoid having to *BUY* more hardware? I could *borrow* a PC for initial setup however, the instructions indicatethat the "controller must be running" in order to use the ios app?!?! Does that mean that the EAP 225s *require* a dedicated PC running all the time in order to use the access points? This is bizarre, if so. I'm running an Archer C4000 with two EAP 225s in separate locations. Someone tell me how to make these devices work withOUT having to *BUY MORE HDWE*
Basic roaming is part of the 802.11 standard since very beginning (through ESSID/BSSID). The ESSID (mostly just called »SSID«) is the common name for the WLAN, while the BSSID is used to select the AP (Basic Service Set, BSS) of an Extended Service Set (ESS). A controller is needed only for fast roaming according to 802.11k.
Thus, basic roaming works with every AP and WLAN router from whatever vendor, even in mixed environments:
@MrSurly, you can use any OS to set up EAPs through their built-in web UI or you can use the Omada app, which is available for iOS, too.
BTW, even the controller provides a platform-independent web UI. As for the controller itself, it needs to run on a server or an OC200 embedded system. Soon a generic cloud version of the new Omada SDN controller will become available from TP-Link, which runs the controller natively. You could even run the current version of Omada controller in the cloud (e.g. an AWS, Digital Ocean or any other service provider's instance) or on a public Internet server if you have one.
Being a MS-free zone here, I use only MacOS to deploy EAPs and Linux servers to run the software controller. OC200 uses an embedded Linux, too. I tried to port the Omada SW Controller v2.7 to MacOS (since MacOS is based on FreeBSD, which is pure UNIX, on which Linux – and even the Windoze kernel since NT – is based on, too), but I gave up due to Apple's very special launchd method for starting daemon processes at boot time and the platform dependency introduced in Omada Controller by TP-Link starting with version 3.0.
See this FAQ for various ways to manage Omada EAPs.
