If a device would jump between 2 AP’s all the time (guess its based on best coverage) it might be a good idea to just lock it down to a certain AP to minimize all the unnecessary jumps?
+1 for this
+1, this would be awesome. Sometimes if an AP restarts a client will grab a different one in a further room, would be awesome to lock a client to an AP (maybe using the colors?).
About the only way I have found to do this is to setup MAC based authentication, allow all of the MAC addresses you want to connect to different SSIDs assigned by color to different APs. Kind of messy currently, but it works.
How did you do this?
Just wondering, has anything like this been implemented or anyone know of a non-messy way to do it with all of the updates Alta has been providing?
I’ll second this request, getting kind of tired of doing a manually check on a daily basis, since especially one of my cameras wants to connect to an AP where it ends up with -85 dB, instead of the closets that results in -72-75 dB 
(Reconnecting it makes it jump to the desired AP every time, so not sure why this behavior happens)
@Alta-Jeff can we bump this feature up the ladder?
That’s a tough question to answer. This is a popular request because there are a lot of buggy WiFi client devices that don’t roam to their proper AP within a reasonable amount of time. We are looking to implement this purely based on popular community feedback, but I’m afraid it may not always work as well as you would expect, even after we implement it.
That’s because WiFi client devices can be extremely aggressive at connecting to the wrong AP, even when there is a much better/closer AP nearby. Many of them will scan once and not give up until they’ve connected to the first AP that they happened to see, even if it’s a mile away. Even if we block connections to the bad AP, we’ve seen cases where the client device may never give up trying! Client devices continue to get better over time, but there are many old devices that may never get updates to make any improvements in this regard.
In most cases, your best option is actually to contact your WiFi client device vendor and ask them to improve their roaming parameters, so that they will scan progressively more proactively as their uplink signal is weak enough.
From our perspective, it’s difficult to implement a feature that we know will only bring marginal gains. We do plan on implementing it, but this is definitely a case where YMMV.
The way I did this, assign different colors to APs and have a dedicated SSID only configured for these colors. Seems to work well.
Yes, good point, that will generally get you better results than a full-on lock feature.
How did you implement this feature? I’m currently having a big issue where all devices in the house are connecting to 2 access points which are far away.
I was going to mention this… I had never thought of it before… What a great idea.
This sounds like an issue with the ap’s all being at full power.
+1 for this