No, there is no need to reboot.
BS has implemented it that way.
The router always starts with the dd-wrt radio firmware.
THEN - a firmware crash is simulated and the vanilla firmware is loaded - without reboot and this is always the case.
Basic troubleshooting example, select firmware type DD-WRT so simulated crash and subsequent reload never occurs.
If radio scheduling issue still exists then I highly doubt the firmware type switching feature has any part of root cause.
Is r44715 the last release without dd-wrt radio binary blobs or the first one with it?
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Maybe this needs to be reassessed, but at the same time just because an old build 'works' does not prove anything.
If saying something is broken or to combine this with 'it worked before' provides next to nothing to identify or solve.
Full circle to this question, have you provided enough configuration information or all steps to reproduce a problem?
That's what I posted in of the builds threads:
TP-Link ARCHER-C7 v2
Issues: Wifi doesn't turn on according to schedule if router is rebooted while wifi is turned off.
1) Disable Wifi on 2.4 GHz completely.
2) Set up Wifi schedule for 5 GHz.
3) Once Wifi turns off (according to schedule), reboot router.
4) Wifi will never turn on again, unless rebooted 2+ times during a time when Wifi is scheduled to be on.
I answered the very first question, so there is no need to rephrase 4x or complicate also this solves nothing.
Critical lack of information did not specify any wireless radio or scheduler settings to reproduce the problem.
Any settings changed from factory defaults are interesting. Set both radio channels, as ho1Aetoo suggested.
Try firmware type DD-WRT binary, so a reload never occurs during boot and replicate behavior of old builds.
Auto channel. Do you know of any version after r40559 where it is working correctly?
No as far as I know this is faulty for 3 years.
However, the problem is poorly reproducible and therefore also poorly fixable.
I have given up testing because I do not want to restart my router 100x.
If auto-channel hangs the router takes much longer to boot and the WLAN is then unconfigured.
