Adding OpenWrt support for Xiaomi "Redmi Router AX6S"/"Xiaomi Router AX3200"

Yes, we should wait until the first stable release and test that one thoroughly. Bug reports like this during RC's aren't paid due attention.

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Yes, I didn't realize that yesterday. Today I did the same process from 23.05 to 24.10-RC7 and it worked OK.

I wonder if we would need to flash factory.bin again after a working 24.10 image released on top of RC7.

hi, I want to share that release also transforms the my router into a brick, I manually updated it as it is written on the wiki. as a result, it cyclically rebooted with a yellow light
I have not tried to install RC versions.
version RD01

If you already have 24.10.0-rc7, you can upgrade normally to 24.10.0 final. The factory.bin procedure is required only once when first upgrading from23.05.x to 24.10.x.

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Word of caution, the site says 24.10 is the current stable, but the downloads are still the files from last Tuesday which will soft brick your devices

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Seems just one day after, we get the final stable release. The release notes for anyone who wants to read them:

https://openwrt.org/releases/24.10/notes-24.10.0

Let's get testing hehe

My post directly above yours literally says it's still the same bugged version that some of us flashed on Tuesday.

Can you post the SHA256 of the file from Tuesday?

I don't have it, but the download is about half the size of the release candidates. See the comparison between rc7 and the final release.

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0-rc7/targets/mediatek/mt7622/

https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.0/targets/mediatek/mt7622/

Have you tried the new files? I was thinking that could be due to some debug flags in the RC's, but im seeing it's only the case for this router, and not for any other router of the same target...

They aren't new files, they're the same ones I used to flash my router last Tuesday and bricked my router. I don't assume they'd place new files with an old timestamp.

Oh so youre saying you already tried the "stable" release before the actual announcement? (Just saw the upload date is from two days ago). I though you bricked with RC7, not with stable.

It soft-bricks device. I have tried. The only big issue here is that Release Notes falsely advertises support with upgrade guide. I bet there will be a lot of those who will fall in this trap :person_facepalming:

Final release seem to have one part missing?
That squashfs at the end.

binwalk '/tmp/openwrt-24.10.0-mediatek-mt7622-xiaomi_redmi-router-ax6s-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb' 

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0             0x0             Flattened device tree, size: 4096 bytes, version: 17
4096          0x1000          gzip compressed data, maximum compression, from Unix, last modified: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (null date)
5660672       0x566000        Flattened device tree, size: 29461 bytes, version: 17

binwalk '/tmp/openwrt-24.10.0-rc7-mediatek-mt7622-xiaomi_redmi-router-ax6s-squashfs-sysupgrade.itb' 

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0             0x0             Flattened device tree, size: 4096 bytes, version: 17
4096          0x1000          gzip compressed data, maximum compression, from Unix, last modified: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 (null date)
5660672       0x566000        Flattened device tree, size: 29429 bytes, version: 17
5693440       0x56E000        Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 4.0,** compression:xz, size: 4803552 bytes, 1389 inodes, blocksize: 262144 bytes, created: 2025-01-27 22:53:29

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yhea... i'm checking on it... this doesn't make any sense...

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At least just by the filesizes, the only model of the same target that varies nearly as much is just ours. No other model varies more than a few Kb from RC7

I just made "Request Build" at https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=24.10.0&target=mediatek%2Fmt7622&id=xiaomi_redmi-router-ax6s
could it be that?

Used sysupgrade option of 24.10 for ax3200 on firmware-selector for flashing via web interface, got "nice" solid amber colour light... had 24.10-rc6 prior, installed using instruction on the wiki page. Thought if it is 24.10-rc6 to 24.10 release, no need to use the ssh anymore for the upgrade :slight_smile:

Any idea how to recover?

https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/ax3200 - Debricking. I used dnsmasq (TFTP) to load original firmware (beware to use right variant, Chinese or EU) and xmir-patcher to flash OpenWrt. Took about half an hour.

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I may have done it this way before, thanks for the prompt answer.