Google Nest Camera doesn't find WiFi if 802.11w Management Frame Protection set to optional

Installing and Using OpenWrt Network and Wireless Configuration
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My Google Nest Cameras (a Doorbell Battery & a Floodlight Camera) stopped connecting and couldn't find WiFi when reconfigured.

After quite some sleuthing, I found the culprit to be 802.11w Management Frame Protection. This needs to be Disabled rather than Optional (haven't checked Required) for Google Nest Cameras to work.

This setting under the 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz radio:
Network ¦ Wireless ¦ [SSID] Edit ¦ Wireless Security ¦ 802.11w Management Frame Protection.

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It's possible, there are weird -broken- clients like that (way too many, especially the IoT and 'smart' ones, but also many phones, printers, etc.). There's nothing that could be fixed on the OpenWrt side here, either the client needs to be fixed (really, it needs to be) or you can't use 802.11w.

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Thanks for the heads up.