How to Bridge two Mesh Router Pros

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I just purchased two fo the mesh router pros and am struggling with getting them both hardwired with an ethernet connection. My modem is running through a switch to all the ethernet ports in my house. I set up one of the routers and hardwired it to the house and everything works great.

However once I go down to my office and set up the second router and I plug it in it just keeps alternating between orange and green lights and is never able to set up. Am I suppose to connect with with the first router via wifi for initial setup? do i add it as an additional router on the network? If so, when I do both of these I don’t have the option to select one over the other to turn bridge mode on. I can only do it for both routers rather than a specific one. Should this be the case?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Yes, you should use wifi first to connect the second.

Yes, add it as a second router for the same network used on the first.

Yes, bridge mode is all or none. I have my six Wyze routers setup in bridge mode with one SSID for them (IoT stuff only). Works fine.

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When setting up the second router, you need to be near the main router and connect it via WiFi. Once connected to the main router, then you can move it to your final location and plug in the Ethernet Cable for Wired Backhaul.

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After I turned on bridge mode and then restarted my network. The router that is hardwired has the light stay solid orange but the router on WiFi goes by to solid green. Any thoughts on this?

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Yes I know what the light means. What I don’t understand is as soon as I turn on bridge mode and restart my network it goes from green to orange and not until I turn off bridge mode do I get it to go back to green.

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It means the router has no internet connection so there is some error in the IP/DNS configuration. How does it get the settings? DHCP? Manual? What DNS are you using?

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Sorry I am not too tech savvy. I just turned on and set up the routers. Would that info be in the app somewhere that I can find it?

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Advanced Settings, IP Adress:

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Looks like DHCP

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So, what device provides DHCP information on your network?

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I think we need to backup a bit…

Why do you want to run the routers in bridge mode? This isn’t the norm and is really something needed by very few users.

What is your primary router and why don’t you want the Wyze Routers as the primary?

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My house is long and where the first router is plugged into to the ethernet its too far away from where I want the second router to sit to get a good mesh signal. So I want to plug in the second router to a data port on the other side of the house but run them on the same network.

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Here is a link to one of my posts on bridge mode:

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This makes sense. I think I need to turn my Ziply router/modem on for bridge mode too now that I am doing some more research online. i also submitted a log with wyze support today as well.

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Support won’t be of much help. They have a set of troubleshooting scripts they use and if it doesn’t solve the problem they just fade away or send the same troubleshooting steps again and again before closing your ticket.

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