Installing Openwrt on Devolo Magic 2 wifi next

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I am not fully sure what you tried or did to be honest. I hope it is working now?

Your configuration does look correct regarding the interface. I have these though:

uci set ghn.settings.pairing_secured=1
uci set ghn.settings.pairing_completed=1

I don’t know how those values are used by the various scripts from Devolo exactly, but it might be necessary they are set to 1.

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It works, but pairing only not, going to try these values :+1:

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I did not try pairing at all. I did the pairing with Devolo’s firmware and just copied the configuration values from there. If anybody wants to explore pairing that would be interesting. (Especially with a non-WiFi device.)

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With my apks ready, I tried to migrate from ODM to openwrt 25.12.2 release.

I added ethtool-full, ebtables-nft, flock, and libcap packages. Devolo packages installed and configured. ‘uci show delos’ and ‘uci show ghn’ appear correct against my ODM unit.

But the ghn-host service will not start (even though it responds “OK”).

‘ghn_console’ responds: ‘Can't connect to G.hn host’

I tried this command:

/usr/bin/ghn_host -i ghn --name "Magic 2 WiFi next" --serial <serial#> --mac <mac#> --mt MT3218 --profile 6 --verbose

And got segmentation fault. So I tried:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=lib /lib/ld-musl-armhf.so.1 /usr/bin/ghn_host -i ghn --name "Magic 2 WiFi next" --serial <serial#> --mac <mac#> --mt MT3218 --profile 6 --verbose

I get ‘shared library’ and ‘symbols’ not found errors:

“Error loading shared library cel: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)
Error loading shared library nit: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)
Error loading shared library me64: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)
Error loading shared library 64: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)
Error loading shared library : No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)
Error loading shared library leanup_push: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)
Error loading shared library k: No such file or directory (needed by /usr/bin/ghn_host)”

EDIT:
I rebuilt the apk’s using OpenWrt build folder instead of the sysupgrade image.

Installed with –force and reboot. GHN Works!!

EDIT 2: With working apk’s, I migrated my 2nd unit easily. I always hated that the Qualcomm SON would not release devices back to my OpenWRT router. Finally, I have DAWN handling connections across all 3 APs.

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Great! Indeed it seemed that somehow the patchelf commands from the script hadn’t properly patched the binaries in the first case. (It should be possible to check with ldd what happened.)

Ooh nice! Great to read it’s working well. I was also thinking about running DAWN :slight_smile: