Adding OpenWrt support for Xiaomi AX3600 (Part 1)

Hi there guys I have a mikrotik hap ac 3 acting like main router and want to buy 3 ax3600 to work link dumb ap and spread the wifi. I have 3 flor 1 of them as toi connect wirelessly and i have vlan on my mikrotik router. that I want to make it work on wifi like ssid iot vlan iot ssid cameras vlan cameras ssid guest vlan guest. I allready have 1 ax3600 with open but i cant me vlan work on ssid. Any idea why?

Someone asked if your image can work with VLAN+PPPoE? I would say it can, but I never tried.

I think I used PPoE with VLAN-s way back in 2021, but I cannot be sure

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could someone, with a fiber line, post a picture of HTOP during a speedtest on this device please ??

Hello guys, I tried via VLAN, I added VLAN to the WAN port, created an interface with the PPPoE type, at the expense of speed it rests on a 300 Mbps channel from the junction with the provider.

I did some WAN<->WiredLAN tests here:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-xiaomi-ax3600/55049/6646

WiredLAN <-> WiredLAN speed/cpu load tests:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-xiaomi-ax3600/55049/6706

WirelessLAN (AX210) speed/cpu load tests:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adding-openwrt-support-for-xiaomi-ax3600/55049/6850

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I installed onto an AX3600 image from https://github.com/robimarko/openwrt/releases. So far so good. I have two questions. First is if this image contains firmware blobs needed for hardware accelerations or should I add other files, to support it, and second is what HW acceleration is supported in this firmware.

Thank You

I really don't know what is done or what can be done.
Only the developers can say.

Answer to both questions is no

I am running the latest firmware (OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r0-9d6aeb8) with my AX6 router. Sometimes when I run a speed test it maxes out at around 100mbps and suddenly I completely lose my connection to the router. I have to restart my AX6 to have it run at full speeds (940 mbps- 950mpbs) again. Has anyone encountered this problem before? The router has packet steering on, software offload and hardware offload on. I tried disabling all of those features but the same issue shows up.

How did you enable hardware offload? It's not support currently, just enable packet streeting and set the CPU to performance mode.
Again, don't enable any HW offload. ( I didn't try SW Offload before)

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How did you set the cpu to performance mode?

From bitthief post: Adding OpenWrt support for Xiaomi AX3600 - #5793 by bitthief

BTW: there is a Luci plugin from the Chinese maintainer to switch CPU mode easily: luci/applications/luci-app-cpufreq at master · immortalwrt/luci (github.com)

Have no such issues with my AX6, latest image. Enable packet steering and SW offload and try with that.

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Thank you very much! How can I install the plugin? Its not in opkg for me and I cant find any ipk download links online

Hello @dchard, I got these on latest build, ax6.
x are MAC address of clients

ath11k c000000.wifi: Failed to add peer: x for VDEV: 0
ath11k c000000.wifi: Failed to add station: x for VDEV: 0
ath11k c000000.wifi: Failed to add peer: x for VDEV: 1
ath11k c000000.wifi: Failed to add station: x for VDEV: 1

Do you get the same log on latest build? I have seen your previous post reported about this issue

Small issue with ax3600 as dumb ap I've set the bridge as DHCP client and works pretty good apart when the bridge dhcp lease expires the hole bridge goes down a few seconds..... If you are streaming something it's really bad..... Any ideeas apart from setting it to static ip?

Yes, I do have them.

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I placed the cpu to performance mode and it looks like its more stable. Thanks.

Maybe someone knows: after setting wifi 2,4ghz the settings got set immediately after enabling wifi before i pressed safe and apply. The encryption wasn't set and some of my smart light switches connected. after setting encryption i can't reconnect them. Resetted them 100 times. Always got this:

Wed May  4 23:31:24 2022 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan2: AP-STA-POSSIBLE-PSK-MISMATCH d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d
Wed May  4 23:31:30 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan2: STA d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
Wed May  4 23:31:31 2022 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan2: STA d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d IEEE 802.11: did not acknowledge authentication response
Wed May  4 23:31:45 2022 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan2: STA d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d IEEE 802.11: did not acknowledge authentication response
Wed May  4 23:31:56 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan2: STA d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Wed May  4 23:31:56 2022 daemon.info hostapd: wlan2: STA d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 4)
Wed May  4 23:31:56 2022 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan2: AP-STA-POSSIBLE-PSK-MISMATCH d4:a6:51:54:c2:6d

disabled ldpc, disabled WWM mode, set to N or legacy, enabled CRACK. Nothing helps.