Hey. I have tried this. I turned off the 5GHz and tried to connect. Still didn’t work. Did the password change on the 2.4 too.
Hey Everyone.
I have tried all the suggestions everyone has recommended and still not adding the Wi-Fi switches to the REC app.
I sent an email to REC app support over a week ago and still no reply. Sent many emails to JayCar and have had many recommendations. They have now told me they will send me 3 new ones and send the old suspected faulty ones back.
Once I have received and installed I’ll update everyone as someone may get this same issues in future.
Hi Everyone
Jaycar sent me 3 new Ankuoo MS6126 Wi-Fi switches. After setting these 3 new MS6126 switches I found the that 2 of the 3 original MS6126 are faulty. These 3 new ones were not as easy to add to the REC app then the 5 previous ones I added to the REC app 12 months previous. I found that my Samsung Galaxy S7 would not add the MS6126 to the REC app. REC app kept telling me that “device not found” I had to use an Apple iPad 3. Once all the MS6126 were added to my REC app account I could work them from any device.
To add the MS6126 to the REC app I had to:
- Change the 5Ghz password to make it different to the 2.4Ghz password and also disable the 5Ghz Wi-Fi channel on my modem.
- Remove all passwords and have “NONE” security on the 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi.
- Add all 9 Wi-Fi MS6126 to the REC app while there was no security setup on the 2.4Ghz channel.
- Once all added I had to update the firmware on the 3 new MS6126.
- Once each firmware was updated the REC app told me the firmware upgrade failed. Restart the REC app and all worked and updated fine.
Not sure if anyone else has had the Samaung Galaxy S7 issue like I experienced? Could it be that the S7 is to advanced for the MS6126 or the REC app. Maybe the REC app needs updates to keep up with the technology?
Anyways after all of that I got them all installed and found 2 of the MS6126 faulty and would not add to the REC app.
Also what I noticed with the faulty MS6126 is when the manual override light switch was turned on the MS6126 would turn the light on for about 2 minutes and then turn the lights off then for 2 seconds then light back on for another 2 minutes and so on.
I’ve re-setup my 21 devices about 10 times now without issue. Did you turn off ‘Mobile Data’ while you setup the devices? Maybe something to try.
To use the switch.command_line I had to setup batch files for each actions(on/off) for each of the switches. The batch file contained the full command eg. ‘echo –n –e “\x01\x40\xac\xcf\x23\x8b\xfa\xaf\xfa\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf\xfa\xaf” |nc –w1 –u 10.10.0.1 18530
Thanks for advice. Were you able to put in/ change WiFi password after the blank password installation?
Once all added to REC app I was able to enable 5Ghz channel and set security back to the normal settings on the 2.4Ghz channel. Once this was set yup they all work really well.
Thanks. For your help. It worked ! The 5GHz was the problem.
Hi Everyone
Has anyone wired these MS6126 Wi-Fi switches into a 3 way light switch circuit. I currently have 2 x 2way Clipsal 30M standard mechs and 2 x 3way 30MI intermediate mechs, has anyone ever tried to wire this and has it worked? I see the instructions say single or two way switching. I think it won’t work because of the way the 30MI switches work.
I have and it works with 3 way switches.
Thanks. I’ll give it a go. 
Thanks for all the drawings. Was just asking if they work on 3 or 4 way switch as I am sure I read some where that they don’t work on 3 way. I’ll give it a go though. This is the setup I have wiredin my front hall ATM without the WiFi switch. Thanks
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Whether it’s 3 way or 4 way or even 100 way switches it’ll still work. The reason why is as follows.
The Ankuoo works by detecting a change to your existing switch circuit (I.e. Is power going to your light globe or not). The Ankuoo then effectively becomes your light globe in the original circuit. With this information of whether or not a circuit has changed by you hitting a switch it will control an entirely new circuit to that will power on/off your light globe.
Doing it as described allows the Ankuoo control your light inside the app when nobody has touch a switch, and it is also able to detect when you’ve flicked a switch to change the light’s state.
Hope this makes sense.
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Thanks. Makes alot of sense.
Have you every had issues with adding these MS6126 to the app through a Samsung Galaxy S7 or S8. Mine won’t add and the only way i could add them is through an old iPad 3. I have emailed REC and no response. I have asked Jaycar about this and they said they would check with manufacture and got nothing back. I have 8 of these in my house controlling lighting and want to install more but don’t qant to waste my time if the App isn’t keeping up with technology or so you think its my phones?
I have this issue with a number of devices not just the MS6126. Typically the devices are no name brands. My guess is they don’t really test their apps on android devices that well and only test on IOS devices properly.
I’m using an S8+ and ive been able to pair all 3 i’ve bought thus far to the Rec App.
Also, it turns out that the Ankuoo Rec is supported in Google Home so sending a google home voice command through hassio and binding that macro to a switch in the configuration works for remote control. however the status update still remains a mystery.
Hi,
I spent some time to reverse the ankuoo rec switch protocol and I release this python library https://github.com/marcolertora/pyrecswitch. I’ve submit a PR to integrate it in HA https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/15764.
Hope It could be usefull.
Test are welcome!
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Great work.