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

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.