OpenWRT development environment

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Hi folks,

I use a RUT955 as a SmartHome gateway to control my roller shutters, for example. I have extended OpenWRT accordingly. Everything works great and I would now like to implement further functions. Unfortunately, my development process looks modest and takes a lot of time. I tinker with something on the PC, upload it to the RUT and hope it works. Which is often not the case :frowning:

How can I test everything locally (LUA, VUCI, etc.) and make sure that everything works before I upload?

What do your development environments and working methods look like?

Thanks in advance!

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It's hard to answer properly, unless you are more explicit about what are you developing... Perhaps you can use a generic Linux distribution (or even OpenWrt) inside a VM in your PC.

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Personally, I just upload files via SSH to my router when I need to test them, but then I only do shell scripts, so it's a rather quick process. For something more complex, running OpenWRT in a VM sounds like a good idea.

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