AP radio scheduling (MR32)

[KeesPoel]

We have 200+ Meraki MR32 APs installed over 8 locations.

On one location (10 APs), we use classrooms during the day. In the evening, the classrooms are used by another organisation, with their own wifi APs. We each have our own SSIDs.

To prevent our APs from interfering with their wifi performance in the evening, we want to switch off the MR32 radios outside our business hours.

We can achieve this by scheduling the PoE (injector) power supply.

But is there a more elegant approach?

For instance, are the radios switched off when we use scheduled SSID availability to switch off all SSIDs? 

[PhilipDAth · Accepted solution]

We use the port schedules on a Meraki switch. This powers down the APs (and phones and other PoE devices) at night and back on again in the morning.

The AP schedules wont power down the radios.  It will stop them beckoning,  so they should not consume air time.

[redsector]

Yes, we do the same. And it´s working with port scheduling on the Meraki switches.