Does Cudy AP1300 has support openWRT

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Hello,
I am suffering with two Cudy AP1300 (ac1200). Spent 2 days in order to understand how to make it works with same SSID via Ethernet cable (fast roaming), just like TP-Link DECO does. In the official site - there`s some file on download section of this AP, but looks like it was not officially supported to flash the firmware to openWRT.
Did someone here try this product of Cudy in this direction? I did chose it, because they have PoE Ethernet port, wich is a big deal for me,because the network has a POE-switch and FTP-cables option only. But I am a bit dissapointed at this point. Any help will be appreciated.

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It's not supported.

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It doesn't look like it is currently supported. However, There is this PR https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16265

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Yep, looks like you are right. What is the cheapest alternative (maybe some tp-link) to have a AP-option with 802.11r ?

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All Openwrt devices would support it, cheapest depends on your geographical location.

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802.11r should work on pretty much any hardware. There are some vendor specific bugs that you could run into but that's about it.

I personally have a TP-Link EAP245 AP that works for me

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The AP1300 seems to be also called "AC1200 (gigabit) outdoor". Do you rely on the outdoor part of that device, or is it basically the PoE portion you're interested in?

There are dedicated PoE splitters / PoE extractors, like the TP-Link PoE10r, for example. If you're fine with one of those, you can pick basically every router supported by OpenWRT you want. Just check if the splitter provides the necessary current when picking a router, but 5V and 12V are as common, you must basically really try to find a router that hasn't one or the other. That would boil your question down to any decently recent and cheap router on the support list.

The Cudy AC1200 outdoor goes for 70 € here in Germany on Amazon. If you settle for a Cudy AX3200 (44 €) plus the TP-Link PoE10r splitter I just mentioned (14 €), you're even 10 € less.

Disclaimer:

  • I have no clue if the splitter is either one of the best or one of the cheapest. It's just the very first Amazon search result I got that are actually 802.3 PoE.
  • The Cudy AX3200 is my personal current favorite budget device because it supports AX on both, 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Doesn't tick the other boxes, tough.