Not having a great time with openwrt One device. Am I doing something stupid?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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So I bought an Openwrt One device to see what all the fuss was about.

Unfortunately I’m falling at the first hurdle.

The docs suggest that as supplied the device has openwrt installed and I can immediately access luci at 192.168.1.1 on the LAN (1Gb) port.

I can’t. There’s nothing at http://192.168.1.1/ nor at https://192.168.1.1/

I can ping it just fine and I can ssh in. Further, I can see that luci is installed using opkg info.

My instinct was to install the newest firmware but that isn’t necessarily going to get me any further.

What am I doing wrong? Apologies for this being such a mundane question but I’m doing exactly what I’m told and not getting the expected result.

BusyBox v1.36.1 (2024-12-03 11:41:08 UTC) built-in shell (ash)

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OpenWrt 24.10.0-rc2, r28161-ea17e958b9

=== WARNING! =====================================
There is no root password defined on this device!
Use the "passwd" command to set up a new password
in order to prevent unauthorized SSH logins.

root@OpenWrt:~# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 6.6.63 #0 SMP Tue Dec 3 11:41:08 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg info luci
Package: luci
Version: 24.297.79519~bcd13b9
Depends: libc, luci-light, luci-app-package-manager
Status: install ok installed
Architecture: all
Installed-Time: 1733226068

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So, maybe follow the instruction on the log-in screen and set a password?

Then run ifconfig and post the results, please.

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Start by upgrading to RC7 - https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=24.10.0-rc7&target=mediatek%2Ffilogic&id=openwrt_one

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I didn’t upgrade to RC7 because I couldn’t find any documentation that “there is a bug in RC2 that’s preventing users from following the instructions, but it’s fixed in RCx”.

Moving from one situation to another different one without at least attempting to figure out what’s going on might be just swapping one bad situation for another.

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I’ve made progress. It seems the solution was to tunnel over ssh to the web interface which presumably is running on 127.0.0.1 an not 0.0.0.0.

Next I’ll upgrade to RC7 and continue to be a guinea pig.

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But, do you realize that Release Canidate is an fast moving state, and not "stable"?
Here is the current commit log of openwrt-24.10: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commits/openwrt-24.10/

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I’ve personally managed the whole release process for big software companies from alpha to rc to release so I actually do know what it is. A release candidate is something you expect not to change before release.

But if you’re saying I should be prepared for instability then yes, I am. A release candidate is also not a release. Which is why it’s important to document anything which may be considered a showstopper for release.

I consider the inability to access the configuration page out of the box a showstopper, hence my documenting it. I literally cannot follow the instructions which are to navigate to the configuration page and proceed from there.

Let’s see if the situation has improved between RC2 and RC7.

Also, it isn’t terribly well documented that there is no final release version supported yet on the Openwrt One. The only releases for it are RCx releases as yet. I (reasonably?) expected flagship hardware to have a good and supported firmware shipping with it that worked straight out of the box. My expectation was in my opinion reasonable, but wrong this time.

But this might all be irrelevant. Maybe RC7 is good. I’m writing up my experience because that’s what makes software better. I’ll intentionally reset to default after upgrading to see if the instructions now actually work.

What doesn’t make software better is being defensive about a poor experience.

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I will and would not say you are wrong, except the understanding of the OpenWrt release cycle.
OpenWrt in it's core is still a developer project. A stable release is more or less a freeze of a state which is a good candidate for lts. But OpenWrt itself is still moving.
IMHO you purchased not a flagship model but the device which it actually is. A device where the OpenWrt project can say, nice we have hardware which is good and available and affordable and we can make a nice platform out of it. It's also the first of it's kind. So just try to lower the corporate expectation blubb. (Or buy ubnt :/)

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I totally agree.

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In case your are still at rc02, could please you post the output of:

dmesg
logread

immediately after rebooting your One?

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Apologies but I only read your message after upgrading to RC7.

The problem has gone away so I’m guessing someone spotted it and fixed it.

My post was to check I wasn’t doing something stupid as I only use Linux when I have to. Ordinarily I’m an OpenBSD person.

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