TP-Link 210 Bricked

MIke,  The tplink devices are a bit more complicated to recover than Ubiquiti.    It takes a little unix command line knowledge.   the process is similar to the Mikrotik process:
 

1. Create a directory on your linux laptop /tftp and copy from the vendor support site the appropriate tp-link recovery .bin image for this device.
2. Rename this image to recovery.bin
3. Set the laptop to static IP address 192.168.0.100
4. Become root to execute the dnsmasq command in step 5 
5. Figure out what your network card interface name  is with an 'ifconfig'  ('ipconfig' on windows.)    this is the interface you set to 192.168.0.100.  replace the name of the interface in the following command from "eno1" to what ever yours is.   replace your typical log in name in the command from 'joe' to whatever you login with:
    

   Command Line Example:

   dnsmasq -i eno1 --dhcp-range=192.168.0.105,192.168.0.254 --dhcp-boot=recovery.bin --enable-tftp --tftp-root=/tftp/ -d -u joe
   -p0 -K --log-dhcp --bootp-dynamic
    
6. Connect the tp-link device with your laptop ideally through a dumb switch.   Can be direct cables, but problematic as the links can be down given the timing and things don't work as expected.
7. Push the reset button on the tp-link, then power it on.  Hold the button until you see output log information from the laptop window where you ran the dnsmasq command, around 20 seconds.  Let up the button as they start communicating.   When you see the "sent" message, this is success and the tp-link should have downloaded the image and will reboot in a minute or two. 

Hopefully, it is now back to factory as received in the mail.   Note, there are some tplink devices we are seeing where this does not work and there isn't a straight forward way, e.g. physically pull the flash chip out and burn an image to it.   I think you're OK with the cpe210v2, but let us know the results. 

Joe AE6XE