Kong pro firmware for IPQ806x (R7500, R7800, EA8500, ...)

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I posted because I assume he reads threads here, regardless of not responding. Unless devs are super alienated they love seeing responses to their work. So probably reading, just not responding, at least I hope. Otherwise there isn't any other way to notify him on his builds and issues with them.

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anyone know the latest version of 19.7 that Kong's builds are using? later than 19.7.1?

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Hi,

I'd like to know if some tried /use the last Kong build on R7800?
I want to try open wrt and I've read many good thing about kong.

Thanks

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I've used all kong builds... Even the trunk 5.4 kernel ones on my R7800... They are very optimized for speed, however they are also a very feature rich build, I found it had a load of add-ons that I never bothered setting up as I didn't want/need them.... So still revert to hnymans builds as it's 1/3 of the size and has everything I need from my router apart from the tcpdump package that I install afterwards.

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Latest build is working great. I'm on 15 day uptime. No issues.

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And the latest is the one I see : March 3?
Thanks

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Latest is 3rd April I believe....

https://www.desipro.de/openwrt/trunk/ipq806x/

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I didn't even see the trunk build. I'm using the March 22 one.

https://www.desipro.de/openwrt/19.07/

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And maybe a newbie question but what is the difference with the trunk version?

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I THINK trunk has the newer 5.x kernel but not 100% sure haven't been following dev that closely. Anyone please correct if I'm wrong.

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Trunk version is his version of the master snapshop builds, so it's kernel 5.4 and a few later tweaks.

His other build is based on the latest stable release... And kernel 4.19

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Does anybody have any experience with wds and vap using kong openwrt? It seems that ddwrt latest build for the netgear r7800 have wds and vap as known problems.

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can I upgrade from kong build (march 22 - 4.19kernel) to trunk version?? from LuCi?

thanks

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Yes I've done so...

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And pretty stable?
And no problem to keep setting?

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I notice adblock is broken on an upgrade to Kongs latest 17/04 upload. Error shown below on the overview tab. I'm not clever enough to work out what is wrong - hopefully a simple fix - anyone any clues, seen it and fixed it themselves?

Expected ';'
  in https://192.168.0.254/luci-static/resources/view/adblock/overview.js?v=git-20.107.80580-0f8b611:?
  at Anonymous function (https://192.168.0.254/luci-static/resources/luci.js?v=git-20.107.80580-0f8b611:117:14)
  at Anonymous function (https://192.168.0.254/luci-static/resources/promis.min.js?v=git-20.107.80580-0f8b611:3:207)
  at m (https://192.168.0.254/luci-static/resources/promis.min.js?v=git-20.107.80580-0f8b611:2:106)
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Update your luci-* and rpcd-packages via opkg package manager.

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Thanks for the reply.

Sadly, I think that is beyond me so I'll go back to the previous build and try the next one when it is up. If I go to system>software and 'update lists', the updates list is empty - I presume it points to Kongs repository. If I break something and I lose the internet my family will hound me! :laughing:

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I'm in a similar boat as the last few Kong trunk builds send my router into an endless boot loop right after sysupgrade. I can't dedicate time to figuring it out so I tried hnymans latest build and it's working great while maintaining the same configuration + adding Kong's startup script. Can't afford any down time with everyone home right now with this pandemic.

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If anybody wants to try hnymans build for R7800, see here:

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