I hope somebody can help me with mdns on the R4S. I want to reflect my mdns traffic between 2 Vlan interfaces. I followed the avahi tutorials and this doesn't work.
I allready made a topic explaining my problem but there isn't much response. That is why i am asking it here.
This is the topic i made with more information.
I've finally written the post about "how to build and receive (in png or pdf) the OpenWrt grafana dashboard to your email": https://giuliomagnifico.blog/tips/2022/12/19/grafana-reporting.html
Does it support the NanoPi R4SE, which has emmc?
Does anyone know if there has been any progress on the SD card boot issue? One of my devices still has that problem, frequently. Weirdly, it happens much less often on the first R4S that I bought.
No, it would be complicated... get the normal R4S.
It's supported. But you currently can not use the emmc and need to overwrite the bootloader to ensure booting from SD Card.
I do have the problem with recent snapshots. The problem disappeared for a long time. Not sure what changed in recent updates.
Could you be a bit more specific? Which problems are you facing?
The same soft reboot problem returns on the snapshot build. I have to hard boot the device by unplugging the power.
Cake with WallmartShopper's build drops my downstream from 200-400Mbps to 10. I'm not going to bother debugging this now but wanted to note it here. Could be my switch. Using wifi and a TP-Link EAP265 HD (Omada).
Hello everyone,
I am currently using an R4S with FriendlyWRT. And now I am considering to switch to standard OpenWRT.
I am exploring whether I should just use the pre-built image by OpenWRT or a custom built one.
I am leaning towards using @anaelorlinski's github actions workflow for R4S custom images., but I have a few questions about how it all would work.
The advantages seem to be...
What I'd like to know is whether there are any disadvantages that I don't see. For example...
Let's say I build my custom image, load it on the router and configure everything.
A while later after running it like this, I decide to add another kernel patch, rebuild the firmware.
Can I just upgrade to it, get the kernel patch and keep all my settings and other modifications? Or would "upgrading" again, reset everything?
I like the idea of having an image that is pre-configured. If the SD card ever dies, I would be able to just flash a new SD card with the existing config and everything should just work.
I see there are two ways of doing it:
Which one would you recommend? Replacing the files is easier, because I could just copy my existing files from my FriendlyWRT install.
Using UCI defaults would be safer for future firmware upgrades, but seems to be be A LOT of work.
Do you know of any scripts that could be just run on the existing OpenWRT configs to generate the appropriate uci commands?
Thank you in advance!
He has a config script that I used as basis to do a "first boot" config.
I originally tried openwrt master but @anaelorlinski's build was far better and had all the patches needed. He also has docker built in which made my ubiquity image simple to deploy. Its installed on a 3rd partition I create after writing his builds to an sdcard. I also use that partition to install AdGuard Home on it. because I have a pair of these sdcards I can flash a new image to the other card and then copy my 3rd partition to the new card with a sdcard reader and be backup running with a few tweaks.
That's awesome. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Have you updated or reflashed the firmware yet? Are the files on your 3rd partition preserved?
And just to confirm, instead of expanding the storage (increasing the size of the default partition), you added another one. Correct?
I'm running an older build at present. I was waiting for him to update before I swapped again.
I've not tried flashing over the top directly. I usually wipe the card, flash the new image, mount the image via a card reader and add 3rd partition back and then copy my currently booted 3rd partition to the new partition and then reboot with new card and do the tweaks as required.
And yes. I just use the 3rd partition to fill the card. Mostly to keep things simple.
default is a 1gb root and I use the 3rd partition to max out the sdcard.
root@OpenWrt:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 29.72 GiB, 31914983424 bytes, 62333952 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: BE6EBE25-F7D8-432B-8700-96B7544A688B
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1 65536 147455 81920 40M Linux filesystem
/dev/mmcblk1p2 196608 2293759 2097152 1G Linux filesystem
/dev/mmcblk1p3 2293760 62333918 60040159 28.6G Linux filesystem
But does that mean you have to re-do all configuration every time you wipe it? Or you restore the backup each time?
yes it does but its fairly simple. with the docker images on the 3rd partition all I have to do is re kick that back off and it picks up config etc from there.
Docker is something OpenWrt really needs on opkg since these new devices are much more CPU/RAM/storage overhead now. The FriendlyWrt builds and @anaelorlinski build both have it, it's a game changer.
Which Ubiquiti image are you using? Assuming this is for unify-controller, is it this one? [https://hub.docker.com/r/jacobalberty/unifi] I'm looking to do this since I run a U6-Lite on my network.
edit: okay just didn't know OpenWrt had this page until I searched: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/virtualization/docker_host this is great.
one word of warning thou. when you want to update the images? do it from an ssh window. the luci window times out after 90seconds or so. Image pulls can take 2-5mins. its 750mb.
once the image is downloaded you can use the luci plugin instead.
Thanks for the tip, looks like a fun project for this weekend