Hi -
This week I decided to upgrade my existing AC68U running merlin to an AX86U. I have been spending time today setting up the AX86U and installed Merlin 386.1 beta 4. However I have run into a couple of issues which I think may be related.
Firstly, I live in Sydney where day light savings apply. I have set the time zone to "Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne", and the appropriate start / end timezone dates. Oddly the default values for the start / end seem swapped. After applying the changes the router reports the local and system datetimes are different which is what we don't want. This can been seen by going to the System Log where the timestamp is 1hr behind. I have tried rebooting, resetting, including hardware reset, and to no avail have I got this to work. The settings for the day light savings are identical to what I have in my AC68U, so I am sure they are correct.
Thinking there may be bugs in the day light savings implementation, I set the timezone to Solomon Is which does not have day light savings and is 11hrs ahead. However, when I set a time schedule for a particular device in parental controls, the device would appear blocked in the router, but would still have network access. Extremely odd. At this point I lost enthusiasm to battle with bugs and stopped my investigations.
I decided to revert to the Asus 3.0.0.4.386.41535 firmware. This firmware also exhibited the exact same day light savings issues as Merlin. I then decided to try the release prior, being Asus 3.0.0.4.384.9318. This worked perfectly. The day light savings worked, and so did the time scheduling. I am presuming there is some kind of DST bug in both the current releases of Asus and Merlin firmware's?
It also seems the time scheduling part of parental has had an overhaul. Personally I prefer the old Grid system of selecting when devices are online / offline rather than the new UI which is pretty cumbersome - it appears usability has gone backwards
This week I decided to upgrade my existing AC68U running merlin to an AX86U. I have been spending time today setting up the AX86U and installed Merlin 386.1 beta 4. However I have run into a couple of issues which I think may be related.
Firstly, I live in Sydney where day light savings apply. I have set the time zone to "Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne", and the appropriate start / end timezone dates. Oddly the default values for the start / end seem swapped. After applying the changes the router reports the local and system datetimes are different which is what we don't want. This can been seen by going to the System Log where the timestamp is 1hr behind. I have tried rebooting, resetting, including hardware reset, and to no avail have I got this to work. The settings for the day light savings are identical to what I have in my AC68U, so I am sure they are correct.
Thinking there may be bugs in the day light savings implementation, I set the timezone to Solomon Is which does not have day light savings and is 11hrs ahead. However, when I set a time schedule for a particular device in parental controls, the device would appear blocked in the router, but would still have network access. Extremely odd. At this point I lost enthusiasm to battle with bugs and stopped my investigations.
I decided to revert to the Asus 3.0.0.4.386.41535 firmware. This firmware also exhibited the exact same day light savings issues as Merlin. I then decided to try the release prior, being Asus 3.0.0.4.384.9318. This worked perfectly. The day light savings worked, and so did the time scheduling. I am presuming there is some kind of DST bug in both the current releases of Asus and Merlin firmware's?
It also seems the time scheduling part of parental has had an overhaul. Personally I prefer the old Grid system of selecting when devices are online / offline rather than the new UI which is pretty cumbersome - it appears usability has gone backwards
