which MR devices have a scanning radio?

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K2_Josh
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which MR devices have a scanning radio?

The new AP Neighbors feature documentation says that a scanning radio is required, but I can't find any information in datasheets or official documentation.

 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/AP_Neighbors

 

I just found a few forum posts where people mentioned MRdevices that do and do not have scanning radios:

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless-LAN/MR20-vs-MR33-gt-Security-and-Scanning-Radio-Blue-Tooth/...

https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless-LAN/Buying-options-for-a-single-user-and-for-learning-purpo...

 

I also looked at the  firmware features page to see if it listed model-specific information there for this feature, but for some reason the feature isn't listed there. Maybe the features or necessary firmware version isn't listed because the firmware is still in public beta. But at the same time, the MX firmware page lists beta firmware features. Is this beta too new to have a public version number?

https://documentation.meraki.com/Firmware_Features/Wireless_(MR)_Firmware_Features_Directory

https://documentation.meraki.com/Firmware_Features/Security_and_SD-WAN_(MX%2CZ)_Features_Directory

 

Can anyone tell me how to determine which MR devices have scanning radios?

Or, is there that one weird trick your Meraki engineer doesn't want you to know? And are there different kinds of scanning radios to be aware of?

Or, does one have to scour all of the MR datasheets to see which ones list dual-band scanning or just bluetooth scanning?

And why does PMF on 6GHz result in no scanning radios on that band, at least per the MR 57 datasheet? 

https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/MR_Overview_and_Specifications/MR57_Datasheet

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Ryan_Miles
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The AP Neighbors doc mentions minimum firmware requirement of MR27. Referencing this doc and looking at the max runnable firmware column that would mean from MR42 forward (by release date) would support the feature in firmware. The MR20/28/70/78 don't have the scanning radio, so those would be excluded.

 

AP Neighbors is for 802.11 and not related to bluetooth.

Ryan

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Ryan_Miles
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The AP Neighbors doc mentions minimum firmware requirement of MR27. Referencing this doc and looking at the max runnable firmware column that would mean from MR42 forward (by release date) would support the feature in firmware. The MR20/28/70/78 don't have the scanning radio, so those would be excluded.

 

AP Neighbors is for 802.11 and not related to bluetooth.

Ryan

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K2_Josh
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This is great. That means that all MR devices listed in the current MR family datasheet have a scanning radio 802.11.

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