MT6000 - Wifi ON/OFF Schedule not working properly when a custom Interface for IOT WiFi devices is present

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UPDATED FINDINGS: (I deleted the previous post)

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The on/off scheduler does work but only with the (original) guest wifis (with guest wifi schedule turned on) and the 'new' IOT wifi s which are defined on a new IOT interface and br-IOT. The original WiFis (both bands) on LAN / br-lan are not affected by the schedule.

As a double check, I turned off the Guest wifis and also disabled the guest schedules for both bands. In this scenario, when the scheduled turned off the wifi only the new IOT Wifi was turned off but the original wifis on the br-lan remained active.

I suspect it may be to do with the fact that the IOT WiFi networks appear on a Wireless tab with the same name as the original WiFI network on the LAN.

Anyway to get the scheduler to work with all three SSId networks on each band?

UPDATE:
Instead of using the scheduler to power off the WIFIs I changed the scheduler to reduce the power output and to restore the power. In both cases the scheduler changed the power high/low on all wifi networks correctly. So it looks like a power on / off issue with the scheduler. Hope that helps.

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The IOT interface shown in the screenshot in the post above was created from these instructions from @bruce

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Hi,

This is a customize add WiFi radio, probably be incompatible or ineffective with original GL associated functions. Sorry.

It is recommended that you do not use iot WiFi radio if you use a timer.

The requirements for multiple SSIDs have been recorded, and the PM will evaluate this, the later GL firmware will support more SSIDs without customize manually add.

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I suspected as much!

I have already disabled the timers and I am using the LUCI Schedule Tasks to disable and enable the WiFis. Seems to be working fine in my set up I have 4 ssids in addition to the 2 guest ssids (which are turned off 24/7).

> 0 1 * * * uci set wireless.wifi2g.disabled=1 && uci set wireless.wifi5g.disabled=1 && uci set wireless.wifinet4.disabled=1 && uci set wireless.wifinet5.disabled=1 && uci commit wireless && wifi reload
> 0 8 * * * uci set wireless.wifi2g.disabled=0 && uci set wireless.wifi5g.disabled=0 && uci set wireless.wifinet4.disabled=0 && uci set wireless.wifinet5.disabled=0 && uci commit wireless && wifi reload

I hope multi-ssid and interfaces will be introduced in due course!

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