I purchased a LiteBeam and went through the instructions on the AREDN site for the 5AC Gen 2. I -=may=- have bricked it, so I purchased another one and -=may=- have bricked that one too. So before I take it any further I wanted to see if anything glaring stands out in my actions when installing the aredn firmware on this unit.
- I followed the “Ubiquiti 802.11ac First Install Process” instructions on the AREDN docs step-by-step. My unit would not be downgraded to 8.7.0, the instructions went on to note that 8.7.4 should be used, so that is what I installed.
- I followed the instructions to upload the firmware, selecting the factory AREDN .bin for the unit.
- When the unit was available again, I was not able to connect to it via my wired ethernet port but I noticed a wireless network called something like “mesh 2” so I connected to that wireless network and was able to get to set the node name and admin password.
- The unit initiated a reboot and noted that the address would be 10.48.11.41 after the reboot.
- The “mesh 2” wifi network disappeared during the reboot.
If I were in your position (and I may be soon ;) I would crack open the case and connect to the serial port on the board inside. This will give you a serial console on the radio and let you poke around. OpenWRT has information on this radio and general info on using the serial port on radios.
I suspect that AREDN may be flashed OK on your radio, but the network interfaces not configured correctly. If you're not in a hurry, I may have be able to offer some help when I acquire such radios.
I was able to run thru the setup and face a similar issue with UI LightBeam 5AC Gen2. I also was not able to connect to 192.168.1.1 but based on the post above saw the Mesh2** wifi network and setup the node. After reboot cannot connect. So looks like the network interfaces are not configured on this new radio.
My goal was to connect this to a Microtik HAP3, I guess that is not possible now?