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Cannot overwrite Mikrotik 7.19.4 on hAP ac3

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k2evk
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Cannot overwrite Mikrotik 7.19.4 on hAP ac3
I am about a week into this.  It appears that Mikrotik has locked down non Mikrotik RouterOS upgrades/replacements to their firmware.  As suggested I attempted to downgrade 7.19.4 to the stable V6 release.  When I tried to do this, I received an error message that 7.19.4 could not be down versioned to a V6 release.

Is the above true?  If yes, then Mikrotik versions with the latest factory flash are unusable for AREDN?  The online hAP ac3 documentation could use some updating.  If I can receive some guidance on the AREDN load over 7.19.4 I would be happy to document the steps needed and submit for inclusion into the hAP ac3 documentation tree. 

Thanks for the assist.  Joe
nc8q
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Cannot overwrite Mikrotik 7.19.4 on hAP ac3
Hi, Joe:

Did you first load the factory.bin file, then the sysupgrade.bin file did not load?
I see that the hAP-ac2 has a sysupgrade-v7.bin file, but the hAP-ac3 does not!
Maybe a sysupgrade-v7.bin file needs to be created for the hAP-ac3?

73, Chuck
 
K6CCC
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As suggested I attempted to

As suggested I attempted to downgrade 7.19.4 to the stable V6 release.  When I tried to do this, I received an error message that 7.19.4 could not be down versioned to a V6 release.

Mikrotik devices can never be downgraded to whatever the factory firmware version was.  In other words, if the device left the factory with version 7.1.2, there is nothing you can do to load firmware lower than that.



 
k2evk
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My research shows that the 7
My research shows that the 7.x.x releases will not allow you to load anything other than supported RouterOS releases.  There used to be a workaround you could use, that being a downgrade to V6 and that would allow a AREDN firmware load, but V7 will not allow that downgrade any more.  Looks like Mikrotik has walked away from the HW hacker/AREDN markets.

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