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minus-squareshortwavesurfer@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·25 days agoIsn’t the HA cloud dongle able to do both because they’re on the same 2.4 gigahertz or whatever?
minus-squaremartini1992@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoThe dual stack firmware was deprecated because of issues, I believe.
minus-squareNorah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoIt’s still marked as experimental, not deprecated, just will likely stay that way. However, it does work with both protocols individually, and the first-use wizard asks you which dedicated firmware you would like to install: https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/26124710072861-Enabling-Thread-support
Isn’t the HA cloud dongle able to do both because they’re on the same 2.4 gigahertz or whatever?
The dual stack firmware was deprecated because of issues, I believe.
It’s still marked as experimental, not deprecated, just will likely stay that way. However, it does work with both protocols individually, and the first-use wizard asks you which dedicated firmware you would like to install:
https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/26124710072861-Enabling-Thread-support