There's a single mention of Deco M9 in the thread for Deco M5, but no followup. I have five M9s (v1) that I'm starting to feel I need to either switch out or get supported third party firmware onto. I've looked quickly at the hardware similarities between the M5 and M9, and it seems they are very similar. The M9 is of course tri-band, which improves the wireless mesh throughput.
If someone has already worked on this, it would be good to know. Otherwise I will start looking into it now. The extra features of the M9 Plus (Zigbee .. ) are less interesting for me, unless it would be possible to just make them standard repeaters (which the TP-Link fw does not do).
Did you get any private responses to this? I have EU v2.1 units that I’d also love to get revamped with OpenWRT. TP-link really haven’t put much effort in to supplying features :-(.
I have a 3 pack with me and I started to investigate what will it take to get it supported. I have until now extracted the OEM firmware and extracted the rootfs and also the kernel image.
I tried running the dtc -I dtb -O dts... command on the kernel ubifs image but that does not give me anything that I can make any sense of. Can anyone here guide and point me in the right direction ?
it has a 4 core ipq4019 and QCA988x chip. It has ssh port enabled but needs an rsa key and I cannot figure out if that rsa key is hidden somewhere in the rootf or not!
Also there is no guide that I can find that has some clues on how to open it and connect a serial cable to look at the bootlogs. Does anyone have that information ?
Hey, worth opening new thread - extract bootlog (set log to maximum, power off/on and copy from oem web interface), show the page with OEM upgrade image. This thread seems went dormant without any activity.
Obviously you need to open the device and assure stable recovery to OEM FW before programming anything of your own making into device.