Not able to update Banana Pi BPI-R4

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I have been trying to update my BPI-R4, since yesterday, Tuesday morning (UTC+1) 04 sept 2024, using either owut or attended sysupgrade, I get the following errors:
owut

owut check
ERROR: Response status 502 while downloading
  https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/json/v1/overview.json

Attended sysupgrade

Error connecting to upgrade server
Could not reach API at "https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org/api/v1/revision/SNAPSHOT/mediatek/filogic?1725525032982". Please try again later.

The router can ping https://sysupgrade.openwrt.org
I can download the 'sysupgrade' file from https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=SNAPSHOT&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=bananapi_bpi-r4
But I am not able to download a customised image with the packages I desire, there is no response to the 'Request Build' button.
(I added these packages to the list: adblock luci-app-adblock attendedsysupgrade-common luci-app-attendedsysupgrade luci-app-statistics owut).

What am I doing wrong?
How do I correct this?

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You'll need to wait for the sysupgrade server to be fixed if you want to use any of the ASU clients (LuCI Attended Sysupgrade, auc/owut or Firmware Selector).

Alternatively, you can download the image builder for your device and use it to create your own images.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/imagebuilder
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-imagebuilder-mediatek-filogic.Linux-x86_64.tar.zst

You'll need an x86/64 linux install to use it.

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Thank you.
I have read those guides before, but still do not feel brave enough to try - this is despite being a linux user for ~18years.
Regards,
Alistair