Firmware 8.1.0 Beta 1

Hello @Lai,
Great to see the refreshed changes coming through with the new firmware.

A few early bugs/issues/thoughts to report:

  • Content Filtering appears partly broken, example, the Preset Category option for Adware, rolled back FW to 8.0.2 and is working again.
  • Suspect Cellular WAN Networks not saving LTE & LTE/3G settings (such as choosing LTE Only & selected frequency bands), did not appear to save when rebooted, rolled back FW to 8.0.2.
  • Wireless WAN Networks not keeping WAP2/WAP3 password for the manually added network (such as for hidden SSIDs). Did not appear to save when rebooted, rolled back FW to 8.0.2 and got working again with WPA2 authentication, then rolled forward to beta and the previously saved settings were maintained.
  • System Status (ordinarily green) on the left side of PDX, does not work with Beta Release, rolled back FW and is working again. Actually, what is this indicator for on the PDX?
  • Battery status on PDX, unable to interrogate while on Battery or to run on 12VDC, solution plug-in AC (hmm).
  • On the new SpeedFusion performance page, if your press the new yellow “Export” it gets stuck just going round and round.

With the new SpeedFusion performance page, it is nice, and we’re with @MartinLangmaid on it though it needs some work on the scale to fit more dynamically into the various web browser screen sizes. These images are for a PDX with four cellular modems, as you can see it would be good to turn off the WANs that are not in use and choose the WANs you wish to focus on monitoring.




Though this is a great evolution, we look forward to seeing this within InControl2 also.

We liked the return to the Dashboard after applying changes as we could see the status of the changes getting done (by looking at the CPU) and the overall status of the device. We would prefer to have an option to view a list of pending changes before applying (just our thoughts on the change).

Was also looking for options around the new NTP Feature, where can we find more details and controls for this? Here is our previous post on the new NTP Feature.

We have deployed the Beta release to several devices (several FusionHubs, several models of MAX routers & several models of balance routers) with some of our willing clients on Tuesday morning, no other issues to report at this stage. We are planning to deploy and check soon on an SDX & EPX.

Happy to Help,
Marcus :slight_smile:

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