If I won't be able to remotely access the WAN interface of the router is there some sort of remote management solution for OpenWRT? Something that would allow me to see the router UI and manage it through a cloud interface similar to Peplink InControl, Ubiquiti UISP, Cradlepoint NetCloud manager et…

Yes, that's the point, OpenWISP automates the provisioning of tunnels because doing it manually is error prone and time consuming. Instructions for OpenVPN: https://openwisp.io/docs/user/vpn.html#creating-vpn-server Instructions for Wireguard (but need the 1.0.x branch of openwisp-controller menti…

I don't have a commercial fleet or anything, but I'm running RPi4 devices as routers using the standard debian RPi OS and using cfengine to automate administration. Add a wireguard tunnel to a central server, and IPv6 ULAs to connect to netdata and you get a lot of flexibility, a lot of visibility, …

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What is the current status of OpenWisp? Can somebody share latest screenshots? Is there now a list of clients that are currently connected to the Wifi like in Omada Controller? [grafik] The official videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOeMZ4FGmmhwUjXUjdCgQQA/videos are about 4 years old and h…

Yes, OpenWISP Monitoring provides a list of clients. The current status is that it's not stupid-easy to install and setup yet but hopefully with the next releases this should become easier.

Is there already some release date planned? Currently OpenWISP seems to need a whole server as configuration, whereas Omada Controller can be installed into a single directory and has almost all required libraries and executables included. This makes it possible to run Omada Controller on Raspberry…

By the end of the first quarter 2022 I am aiming to complete the new release of OpenWISP. The later releases will most likely bring improvements to make it easy to install and use. And yes, OpenWISP is not designed for home users, nor it receives any kind of financial support from these kind of us…

Update: OpenWISP 22.05 is out . A demo is also available .

Curious how others are handling this in practice. Once you have multiple OpenWrt devices deployed (especially across sites), things like: config drift keeping runtime state consistent pushing updates safely start to get messy pretty quickly. Are most people still relying on SSH/scripts, or usin…

Firmware which gets flashed gets an config update. Or you sync config files on a regular basis.

Cloud/remote management possible?

Installing and Using OpenWrt

rubenbe April 30, 2026, 7:21am 47

Promoting my own project:

I've been working on a "small openwisp" alternative instead of the behemoth (which certainly is good, but too complex for typical small setups). It might suit your usecase.

It has its own thread on the forum here: