OpenWRT "Ecosystem"

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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OK - I looked around and could not find an answer to my question - if I missed it, I apoligize for the redundancy.
I live on a farm and have a variety of devices all around to support my network. Primarily, I use Ubiquiti USG for a firewall and 5 Ubiquiti APs around the place (in different buildings). I have an older Ubiquiti 2.4 outdoor AP that doesn't support "Unifi" and even a Mikrotik P2P bridge. I have two D-Link DGS switches and a Netgear router or two running DD-WRT. I control 'most' of the network with the Ubiquiti Cloudkey using Unifi but then discovered that OpenWRT supports ALL devices I am currently using. Which got me thinking.....
Like the Unifi "Ecosystem", is it possible to have singular point of control using OpenWRT where I could setup SSID's and 'push' them to devices, create VLANS, and even monitor statistics, usages through a singular point (not logging into each device)? Any guideance would be hugely helpful!

-B

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Something along the lines of this?

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YES, YES! that is it!. I am going to do this. I'll have to flash everything (make my family go crazy for a while) but this is awesome!

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It's not the only one out there, but it was the first result I found when searching for "openwrt central management".

There are other options out there as well.

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I was searching for 'ecosystem' and 'controller' - Ubiquiti corrupted my terminology : )

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It does, at that.

I, too, "enjoy" the linguistic games I have to employ with my own UniFi APs and controller.

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The other popular one would be OpenWISP, but it's quite a challenge to set up (I've read, I never tried it myself)

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Hello everyone,

Nice to see some excitement about RADIUSdesk :slight_smile:

The original post is now a couple of years old already and since then many changes happened to the project.

The project is again fully Open Source and we got funding from NLnet (https://nlnet.nl/) which allows us to add a huge load of new features.

A recent addition is the firewall profiles which makes use of the powerful nftables

http://radiusdesk.com/wiki/meshdesk/nft-adv-block

Soon to be available will be the ability to manage everything even from your phone.

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This looks great! I am already provisioning a mini-pc with Ubuntu 22.4 in preparation for installation. And I definitely look forward to phone app support!

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For those interested, there's an OpenWISP demo system available here: https://openwisp.org/demo.html

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Just under two months :slight_smile:

RADIUSdesk Mobile app finally complete:

http://radiusdesk.com/wiki/getting_started/mobile_ui

No need to take your laptop out to manage the access points :partying_face: