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Management Practices for AirGroup on Home / Small Network

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  • 1.  Management Practices for AirGroup on Home / Small Network

    Posted Feb 11, 2018 03:42 PM

    I have a home / lab setup of 2 Instant 315 APs. I have AirGroup configured to allow all, with all of the default "AirGroup Service" options checked.

     

    I'd like to get to a config eventually of selectively allowing only desirable traffic, but I have it set this way for now to get to an understand of what traffic AirGroup still interferes with even when set to "allow all".

    Screen Shot 2018-02-11 at 2.29.54 PM.png

    Even with the "allow all" settings, I see still dropped queries for services that I'd probably like to work:

    ap01# show airgroup blocked-queries

     

    AirGroup dropped Query IDs

    --------------------------

    Service ID                                      #query-hits

    ----------                                      -----------

    urn:samsung.com:device:RemoteControlReceiver:1  11

    urn:Belkin:device:sensor:1                      10

    urn:Belkin:device:lightswitch:1                 10

    _homekit._tcp                                   57

    _sleep-proxy._udp                               30

    urn:Belkin:device:insight:1                     8

    urn:Belkin:device:controllee:1                  8

    _airport._tcp                                   17

    _smb._tcp                                       11

    _adisk._tcp                                     11

    _uscans._tcp                                    17

    _uscan._tcp                                     17

    _ippusb._tcp                                    17

    _privet._tcp                                    17

    926807f7._sub._apple-mobdev2._tcp               11

    _apple-pairable._tcp                            11

    urn:Belkin:device:**                            6

    urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:basic:1             9

    _touch-remote._tcp                              1

    Num dropped Query IDs:19

     

    I have tried adding these Service IDs to custom Services, but some of them (such as "

    urn:samsung.com:device:RemoteControlReceiver:1" throw an "Invalid Syntax" error in the Instant web UI.

     

    Is disabling AirGroup entirely the best option in a case like this of a very small / home network where these various devices "just working" without handholding is desirable? Or is there a better approach for managing these within AirGroup and keeping up with new services?

     

    Thanks!