AiMesh Issues - Factory Reset and JFFS Packages Question

[rugglebear]

I keep finding similar questions, but not exactly what I'm looking to understand.

My routers are all RT-AC68U
I've updated them to Merlin 386.7_2

I'm having several separate issues.

- My multiple Google Home devices now stutter and cut out while playing music (together or separately)
- I'm currently using a single router, but wanted to try AiMesh again. When trying to connect a node after performing a WPS Factory Reset on the node, the main router can find the node and attempt to connect, and ramp up to 100% during the connection process but ultimately give the message "Unable to add your AiMesh Node RT-AC68U"

I was thinking a solution could be to downgrade my firmware back to something like 384.19 because I never had any issues back then.

If I were to do that, can I just dirty flash it and be done with it?
But if I wanted to do it "cleanly", could I/should I backup and restore my JFFS script somehow? I read from someone on here that doing so would be the exact same as a dirty flash though. The only thing I use JFFS scripts for is AMTM, Diversion, and Skynet.
How would I go about backup/restoring the JFFS script? Do I need to just remove the USB stick from my router, and plug it back in after downgrading?

Thanks.

 

[Ronald Schwerer]

I was thinking a solution could be to downgrade my firmware back to something like 384.19 because I never had any issues back then.

That's what I've had to do when adding my 68U's as nodes. However, IIRC, I only needed to roll the node back to 384.19 (or some 384 variant). So no issue with doing a factory reset. All the custom confige are on the main/parent router. Once paired, I just flash the node to current firmware (through the main GUI) without resetting anything. So the process is pretty painless.