Bananapi rpi-r3 thermal

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi there - pretty new to openwrt. Love what you all have done. I built a router from a banana-pi rpi-r3 using their stock (unventilated case). I keep my wifi seperate from routing so wifi was disabled. I started doing some temperature monitoring and saw it was about 58 degrees. Thought this seemed high with the radios disabled and only video streaming going on. I decided to unload the drivers and see if it changed the heat. It did!

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Temperatures dropped about 10 degrees C. And held. Maybe this is common knowlege but wanted to give back a little to this great community which has been invaluable setting of my network. Only enabled luci statistics right before the module unload so youl'll have to take my word for the stability before. Modules unloaded

mt7915e
mt76_connac_lib
mt76

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That's much lower than I see with with my Filogic device (Zyxel nwa50pro, MT7981 soc where yours is the 7986 might make a difference). I usually see about 70c when it's just idling, like right now I'm seeing 71.3 on it. About par for the course with these highish-end embedded devices inside an airtight box.