@ADELEV 

 

Hey

 

Honestly, if you are intending to use any of the guest / voucher / portal features you really need to have the controller online 24/7.   Sadly when the controller starts up on your laptop the next day, it will sync with the AP and this can cause the AP to refresh it settings, which in turn will restart the AP.

 

If you have another PC / raspberry pi then consider using it for the controller, or if not then a lot of us use the OC200 hardware controller.  The OC200 is perfect for home use and quite reasonably priced at around €55 / $70US

Wow, that was fast! Since our store is not open 24/7, I plan to turn everything off at closing hours to save electricity. Since there is no workaround, I probably need that OC200 hardware controller. If ever I buy the OC200, I will not be experiencing this type of disconnection anymore? thank you for replying!

Wow, that was fast! Since our store is not open 24/7, I plan to turn everything off at closing hours to save electricity. Since there is no workaround, I probably need that OC200 hardware controller. If ever I buy the OC200, I will not be experiencing this type of disconnection anymore? thank you for replying!

@ADELEV 

 

Hey

 

Yeah the OC200 is a low power device (mine pulls about 3 watts of power), so can be run from even the cheapest phone charger.  If you want you can set a schedule in the controller to disable the SSID during certain hours, I have found this takes the power consumption down to virtually nothing..

 

Together an AP and OC200 is around 10 watts of power at maximum, which is roughly at current prices  €7 / $10 (US) per year to keep both online 24/7

 

Lastly, yes the controller should be online 24 / 7 and this should solve the disconnect issue for you, others have reported this issue before when running controllers on Laptops/PCs that power off daily.

 

 

Thank you so much for clearing this!!!

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