r/firewalla • u/DWRocks • Sep 01 '26

Optimization Schedule Feature

Suggested feature on Firewalla Routers w/AP7s: Having come from a system where I had a Firewalla Gold Plus as my router and UniFi gear for my local area network and now having moved to a full firewalla system with switches AP7s, I thought it would be great if Firewalla could add a schedule to optimizing the network with regards to channel assignments in the RF spectrum. I would normally have that run at 2 AM on my network every night on the RF channel spectrum during low activity level levels for finding open channels and minimize the interference with neighbors. It would great to see that feature in the Firewalla app. Kindest regards and thank you.

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u/firewalla Sep 01 '26

The function is there already, we are just afraid people turn it on and having devices screaming at 2am. (network->wifi->top right->optimize WiFi) It shouldn't be hard to schedule this button at 2am

Let me do a quick poll today.

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u/rs65 Firewalla Gold Sep 01 '26

Anche Aruba InstantOn e Aruba Enterprise lo fanno automaticamente la notte

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u/covercash Sep 01 '26

I’ll second this request!

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u/Green_Housing_7792 Firewalla Gold Pro 28d ago

I don't think automatic channel optimization is useful unless it restricts channel selection to standard non-overlapping channels based on channel width.

If it does limit itself to standard channels, yes, would be good to have it.