I'm not planing on doing anything at the moment anyway
as you have a working router, we don't need to do this won't change how it works
there needs to be more interest in the device from others to motivate anything
you can make a pull request and add the device if you want
OK, as i understand that nothing is wrong or incomplete in functioning of this router even if it is not officially supported. i thought we have to do something extra to make it fully functional through mac addresses stuff and i can help there as i have that device now & we can make it officially supported so others too can install it.Anyways i will keep learning about these things and add in future.
Thanks again @kar200 and @Lucky1 for all your work on this till now.
Can Someone Guide me
I have DIR-1360 it is working fine
but it has support of smbv1 only , it is slow
Now should i try to install OpenWrt to get better speed???
if yes then what exact .bin file i should use?
Thanks in advance
EasternMystic had success with this file
http://luckys.onmypc.net/openwrt/DIR-1360-A1/openwrt-23.05.3-ramips-mt7621-dlink_dir-853-a3-squashfs-factory_with_dir-1360-a1_header.bin
it's modified to with the DIR-1360 to get past the recover interface check
you will need to do this from recover interface
and then sysupgrade it to the current version for the DIR-853-A3
also a file to get as you may need it later is
http://luckys.onmypc.net/openwrt/DIR-1360-A1/DIR_1360A1_FWV111B04_beta_vul_unencrypted.bin
to return it back to dlink if needed
Its actually very easy to install openwrt on dir-1360 if you follow right steps as it has recovery GUI through which you can flash the openwrt image.
dir-853 a3 uses the same exact PCB from dir-1360 a1 , actually it is written "dir-1360 rev1" on PCB of dir-853 a3.
1st Get the dir-1360 router
Switch off the dir-1360 , then press reset button, while keeping it pressed then switch on the router and hold it until you get orange blinking lite, then log into dlink device and you will get recovery gui interface.
First you need to change the ip address of your PC when you connect to the lan port of router, it must be assigned a static ip address like 192.168.0.10 with subnetmask 255 255.255.0 and (prefix as 24 if you are using windows 10) on the ethernet network settings of your PC.
Then type 192.168.0.1 on your web browser , you must get recovery web page of dir 1360
flash this file
openwrt-23.05.3-ramips-mt7621-dlink_dir-853-a3-squashfs-factory_with_dir-1360-a1_header.bin
from location Official openwrt firmware 23.05.3 for dir-853-a3 with header changed so that it get accepted by dir-1360 recovery gui
Once flashed openwrt will be on your device.
Now your device will show dir-853 a3 so go into webgui of openwrt called luci and just upgrade to official 24.10.0 version of dir-853 a3 from openwrt site through "sysupgrade option of luci web interface".
Remember that you have to use sysupgrade image of openwrt in dir-853-a3 section not factory image.
Flash this Official 24.10.0 853 a3 sysupgrade image through system upgrade option luci web interface of openwrt .Official openwrt sysupgrade image for dir-853-a3 to be used after you have aleady installed openwrt on your device through system upgrade option in luci
Now your device is 853-a3 with latest version and you are ready for setting up openwrt router
After you have set up dhcp in your router , you can again change to automatic dhcp in your PC
Then configure through first time set up guide in openwrt site.
Also I am pretty sure you can get back to dlink stock firmware again through dlink recovery mode(because dlink recovery web interface is available when I try to get into it after using method of using reset button as mentioned earlier in my post) by using decrypted dlink official firmware(by decrypting it yourself or just use Lucky1 image posted in above post).
Unencrypted dlink official firmware so that it can be flashed through recovery gui as it only accepts unencrypted images not the ones directly downloaded from official dlink site
Dlink recovery works even after openwrt install (not sure why as I thought GPIO pins have been reassigned according to dir-853-a3 & dir-1360 don't share the same gpio pin for reset button but you don't have to worry about this).
Leds have been reassigned so they may not show correct readings and have not checked usb functioning.
Also you will get lan and wan interface mac addresses correctly even in openwrt firmware of fir-853-a3 used on dir-1360 device(these matters and are important)
Dlink wan interface x0:xx:xx:xx:27
lan interface. x0:xx:xx:xx:24
Openwrt wan interface x0:xx:xx:xx:27
lan interface x0:xx:xx:xx24
But Openwrt wifi mac addresses are not same as dlink stock firmware.
Openwrt 2.4 ghz interface is x2:xx:xx:xx:24 not same as openwrt lan interface x0:xx:xx:xx:24
with flipped 7th bit on mac address of openwrt 2.4ghz interface
whereas in dlink stock firmware both were exactly same,
My D-Link mac addresses were same except last 2 digits
2.4ghz x0:xx:xx:xx:26
5 ghz x0:xx:xx:xx:25
Lan x0:xx:xx:xx:24
Wan. x0:xx:xx:xx:27
whereas Openwrt's 5ghz interface mac address is totally different & random compared to dlink stock firmware.
Dlink 5ghz mac address x0:xx:xx:xx:25.
But both 2.4ghz and 5ghz are working in openwrt.
Also before installing openwrt , can you check & post your mac addresses from dlink web interface both seeing through connected devices and by looking at the bottom of log files which you can open through as a text file after downloading then by going to "Systemlog" section of "Management Menu" in your official dlink official stock web interface.
Post mac addresses of Openwrt by looking at mac addresses of lan/wan/2.4ghz/5ghz/ interfaces like I have done here by going to the luci web interface of openwrt.
Please Post those mac addresses (only the differences between them which are mostly in last two digits except the the flipped 7th bit on openwrt 2.4ghz mac address & completely random in case of openwrt 5ghz interface)
like I have done here to help better understanding of this model which can help in developing official support for dir-1360.
Its all work of openwrt members like @kar200 and @Lucky1 etc. so that we can install openwrt on dir-853-a3 and also dir-1360 as it's byproduct.
