Support for the Desktop

  Richard1864 the smartphone app alone does not provide enough functionality.  If that's all they will offer, it would be nice if it offered more advanced features

Richard1864 Yea that's a load of crap - the 'smartphone app' is a cop out . There are a gazillion of us out here that are techies and geeks that are quite able to manage our routers without "breaking" the interface (whatever moronic explanation that is). 

psuceltic127 I've explored using Android emulation in BlueStacks for Windows, and Anbox for Linux. I can't get it to work yet, but even if it did, it would not provide the functionality that you and I would like. 

QuantumRift Works fine for me in Bluestacks.

txgunlover Yea I'm not getting it to work right. But even if it did, I want more functionality and granularity in control, an "advanced mode" if you will. Anything in particular you had to do to get it to work.what version of BlueStacks, what .apk file, etc...please?

Richard1864 this may have been a valid reason 5 years ago, but now with M1 Macs this argument is no longer valid. Please enable the app for M1 Macs. There is no reason to hold it back at this point. I've been a Eero user for years but this continues to be an issue for me... and if there isn't a resolution soon I may just go buy another brand instead of updating my current Eeros. 

imjoey nah. They’re afraid to admit the facts about the big lie they’ve been spinning. Time for a class action lawsuit 

Richard1864 bull hockey 

Richard1864 bull hockey. you are an eero stooge.

Richard1864 Guess you don't know about the open source Router IOS projects. 

Richard1864 But that's what millennials, etc all are accustomed to...KLUDGED phone apps. I have very, very few "apps" on my phone. I don't need to carry around a damned smartphone full of 'computer apps' to conduct my daily life. I don't. I lived several decades without cellphones, internet connected phones and apps. You have to load up an app for your (Starbucks) coffee....to order at McD's...need an app for almost everything (or at least THINK you need an app). Less apps means you have more time to do things you like, instead of pharting around with apps. 

Richard1864 I'll have to trust you on the part about Microsoft and other platforms, but as someone who works closely with both the Safari and security teams at Apple, macOS blocking web admin interfaces is news to me. Can you share with me where you learned this so I can get more info?

coyotegeek learned it from Netgear and Linksys...update for most non-Microsoft and mobile browsers designed to help admin known when their router was tampered with remotely and if web interface has java or flash security holes in the firmware. Last I heard from Netgear it was still in Alpha testing, but is why Netgear and others are working on mobile and desktop apps to interface with routers in place of web interfaces.  

Richard1864 Ah. I think the confusion here is that the vendors in question aren't necessarily blocking web admin interfaces per se (at least I don't believe Apple is), but they are definitely on a crusade against all browser plug-ins. And I've definitely seen that some of the legacy web interfaces were heavily plug-in dependent (I'm looking at you, Netgear).

coyotegeek exactly. And those interfaces (Netgear and everyone else) are still plug-in heavy, especially flash and java (sheesh, the numbers of security flaws in those two alone is terrifying). 

Richard1864 This was a BS post. I've been accessing my home router interfaces here and in FL since this posting and it's a load of crap.

Richard1864 Obviously, this is BS

successhawk really?!?  Then why are all the router vendors now doing smartphone apps?  

Richard1864 Asus ZenWiFi AX mesh has both a complete web admin interface, as well as a smartphone app. eero could do something similar if they wanted to. The fact is that eero clearly doesn't want to, and they've not given a justification for that, just said that they'll never do it.

Not sure why eero is bothering to have this "voted" on, since they're not going to do this no matter what their customers want. I guess to give users the illusion that some day they might actually do it?

Richard1864 Mobile admin interfaces are coming out for two primary reasons:
1) They want to appeal to the growing population of customers who primarily use mobile phones and tablets rather than traditional desktop and laptop computers, which also means it's a less technically savvy group of users who don't take issue with this restructuring as they don't understand the negatives. 
2) They want to connect your home network use to add-on application/feature sales. By using a mobile app they are rearchitecting the system to have your router connect to and send data through the manufacturers' web services, which the mobile app then connects to under the guise of 'access from anywhere!' as valuable. That allows them to give monitoring and configuration access, including family/child restrictions, "spam" and "hacking" "protections", etc served outside your home LAN to your mobile app. This is core to Eero's profitability plan which is based on selling additional services over the router's core functions. Oh and of course they also get to harvest analytics, tie to tracking cookies and profiles, etc by existing on your primary mobile device(s).

To summarize: the move to mobile apps is about MONEY. More money from us to the manufacturers' for services, more money to the manufacturers because they now have access to our digital profile and activities to bundle and sell to advertisers.

That's it. It is NOT about security. In fact, it creates a much, much larger security exposure area by having the routers connect to external services (the manufacturers' networks) outside the local LAN to enable the mobile app use. If it weren't about money, upselling services, and capturing data by forcing the routers to work through their services, they'd just have an app with a webview of the existing router web admin interfaces.

This is not a customer-friendly change; the services, family controls, limiting, etc exist in 3rd party packages, exists in web-interface-LAN-only routers, but the router manufacturers want to capture the money going to 3rd party providers of safety/filtering/monitoring/etc software and put it in their own pocket by offering no option but integrating their routers with their external web services.

It's BS, as successhawk says. And to my regret I supported it, albeit accidentally, and am lazy enough I'll probably not make the effort of returning and finding a better system. We enable the lowering of product quality and give up full control of the devices WE OWN through apathy and ignorance.
 

Richard1864 the phone app is a convenience UI, and it is definitely not a professional interface.  Eero "Pro" 6, gimme a break! I use the phone apps, but I always end up going to the web UI and/or command line.

Richard1864 if you are talking about router LAN web admin interfaces, and edge browser etc blocking access, that's because of the number of Windows machines being controlled by trojan viruses/rootkits/malware etc. Wifi routers only expose their web admin interfaces to LAN traffic, so the millions of infected Windows machines that are on LANs with wifi routers can be used as access points to the routers for even more nefarious and discreet firmware modifications/hijackings.

Microsoft is covering its own rear, it is the OS of millions of compromised systems. It hasn't successfully made a secure OS so it tries to limit what its compromised self can be used to access.
Of course, that will be bypassed as well.