How to change country / region for airport express

[oscarmorrison]

This is more a wiki post, that a question. But for others wanting to know how to change country code this is what I did.

I purchased a AirPort Extreme (Time capsule) in the US but needed to change it to Australia (where I am now).

SSH'd in (See #1) then I ran acp -q syRe=0x00000025 (for australia) it was 0x00000000 before (for US)

List of country codes Use a hex converter to get the hex code for each of these

"syRe.0" = "United States"; "syRe.1" = "Canada"; "syRe.2" = "Mexico"; "syRe.3" = "Colombia"; "syRe.4" = "Puerto Rico"; "syRe.5" = "Brazil"; "syRe.6" = "Chile"; "syRe.7" = "Japan"; "syRe.8" = "Austria"; "syRe.9" = "Belgium"; "syRe.10" = "Cyprus"; "syRe.11" = "Czech Republic"; "syRe.12" = "Denmark"; "syRe.13" = "Estonia"; "syRe.14" = "France"; "syRe.15" = "Finland"; "syRe.16" = "Germany"; "syRe.17" = "Greece"; "syRe.18" = "Hungary"; "syRe.19" = "Iceland"; "syRe.20" = "Italy"; "syRe.21" = "Ireland"; "syRe.22" = "Latvia"; "syRe.23" = "Liechtenstein"; "syRe.24" = "Lithuania"; "syRe.25" = "Luxembourg"; "syRe.26" = "Malta"; "syRe.27" = "Netherlands"; "syRe.28" = "Norway"; "syRe.29" = "Poland"; "syRe.30" = "Portugal"; "syRe.31" = "Slovak Republic"; "syRe.32" = "Slovenia"; "syRe.33" = "Spain"; "syRe.34" = "Sweden"; "syRe.35" = "Switzerland"; "syRe.36" = "United Kingdom"; "syRe.37" = "Australia"; "syRe.38" = "Hong Kong S.A.R., China"; "syRe.39" = "New Zealand"; "syRe.40" = "Singapore"; "syRe.41" = "Philippines"; "syRe.42" = "China"; "syRe.43" = "Malaysia"; "syRe.44" = "Taiwan"; "syRe.45" = "South Korea"; "syRe.46" = "Thailand"; "syRe.47" = "Argentina"; "syRe.48" = "Venezuela"; "syRe.49" = "Russia"; "syRe.50" = "United States"; "syRe.51" = "Canada"; "syRe.52" = "Bulgaria"; "syRe.53" = "Romania"; "syRe.54" = "India"; "syRe.55" = "Vietnam"; "syRe.56" = "Sri Lanka"; "syRe.57" = "Brunei"; "syRe.58" = "Pakistan"; "syRe.59" = "Nepal"; "syRe.60" = "Bangladesh"; "syRe.61" = "Peru"; "syRe.62" = "Afghanistan"; "syRe.63" = "Albania"; "syRe.64" = "Algeria"; "syRe.65" = "American Samoa"; "syRe.66" = "Andorra"; "syRe.67" = "Angola"; "syRe.68" = "Anguilla"; "syRe.69" = "Antarctica"; "syRe.70" = "Antigua And Barbuda"; "syRe.71" = "Armenia"; "syRe.72" = "Aruba"; "syRe.73" = "Azerbaijan"; "syRe.74" = "Bahamas"; "syRe.75" = "Bahrain"; "syRe.76" = "Barbados"; "syRe.77" = "Belarus"; "syRe.78" = "Belize"; "syRe.79" = "Benin"; "syRe.80" = "Bermuda"; "syRe.81" = "Bhutan"; "syRe.82" = "Bolivia"; "syRe.83" = "Bosnia Herzegovina"; "syRe.84" = "Botswana"; "syRe.85" = "Bouvet Island"; "syRe.86" = "British Indian Ocean Territory"; "syRe.87" = "Burkina Faso"; "syRe.88" = "Burundi"; "syRe.89" = "Cambodia"; "syRe.90" = "Cameroon"; "syRe.91" = "Cape Verde"; "syRe.92" = "Cayman Islands"; "syRe.93" = "Central African Republic"; "syRe.94" = "Chad"; "syRe.95" = "Christmas Island"; "syRe.96" = "Cocos Islands"; "syRe.97" = "Comoros"; "syRe.98" = "Congo"; "syRe.99" = "Cook Islands"; "syRe.100" = "Costa Rica"; "syRe.101" = "Ivory Coast"; "syRe.102" = "Croatia"; "syRe.103" = "Djibouti"; "syRe.104" = "Dominica"; "syRe.105" = "Dominican Republic"; "syRe.106" = "East Timor"; "syRe.107" = "Ecuador"; "syRe.108" = "Egypt"; "syRe.109" = "El Salvador"; "syRe.110" = "Equatorial Guinea"; "syRe.111" = "Eritrea"; "syRe.112" = "Ethiopia"; "syRe.113" = "Falkland Islands"; / A.K.A. (Malvinas) / "syRe.114" = "Faeroe Islands"; "syRe.115" = "Fiji"; "syRe.116" = "French Guiana"; "syRe.117" = "French Polynesia"; "syRe.118" = "French Southern Territories"; "syRe.119" = "Gabon"; "syRe.120" = "Gambia"; "syRe.121" = "Georgia"; "syRe.122" = "Ghana"; "syRe.123" = "Gibraltar"; "syRe.124" = "Greenland"; "syRe.125" = "Grenada"; "syRe.126" = "Guadeloupe"; "syRe.127" = "Guam"; "syRe.128" = "Guatemala"; "syRe.129" = "Guinea"; "syRe.130" = "Guinea Bissau"; "syRe.131" = "Guyana"; "syRe.132" = "Haiti"; "syRe.133" = "Honduras"; "syRe.134" = "Indonesia"; "syRe.135" = "Iran"; "syRe.136" = "Iraq"; "syRe.137" = "Israel"; "syRe.138" = "Jamaica"; "syRe.139" = "Jordan"; "syRe.140" = "Kazakhstan"; "syRe.141" = "Kenya"; "syRe.142" = "North Korea"; "syRe.143" = "Kuwait"; "syRe.144" = "Lebanon"; "syRe.145" = "Libya"; "syRe.146" = "Macau"; "syRe.147" = "Macedonia"; "syRe.148" = "Monaco"; "syRe.149" = "Morocco"; "syRe.150" = "Nicaragua"; "syRe.151" = "Oman"; "syRe.152" = "Qatar"; "syRe.153" = "Saudi Arabia"; "syRe.154" = "South Africa"; "syRe.155" = "Syria"; "syRe.156" = "Trinidad And Tobago"; "syRe.157" = "Tunisia"; "syRe.158" = "Turkey"; "syRe.159" = "United Arab Emirates"; "syRe.160" = "Ukraine"; "syRe.161" = "Uruguay"; "syRe.162" = "Uzbekistan"; "syRe.163" = "Yemen"; "syRe.164" = "Zimbabwe";

[oscarmorrison]

I also ended up changing the SKU too, here: https://whrl.pl/RfXfHJ

[Japanuspus]

Just used a slightly simpler approach: Just change SKU via ssh, then set country via normal airport interface. Worked a charm on a 5th gen airport extreme.

This site lists the SKU's:

Japan: Japan ETSI: Europe APAC: Asia Pacific ROW: Rest of the World. Covers all the countries without specific settings. Korea: Korea Russia: Russia SAM: South America

So, very concisely:

ssh root@<IP>
acp static apple-sku=<YOUR WANTED SKU>
reboot

[x56]

Thanks for sharing your findings here. I'm closing all issues before archiving the project.