OpenWrt One - Setup, Install, and Discussion

Thanks for all the help and suggestions so far!
Plugged in a raspberry pi 4 with PoE hat, works. Using same cable/port plugged in openWRT one router does not work. I waited for a minute now.
Another clarification because the documentation is not super clear about this. The router supports receiving power using PoE on the LAN port, not to power a modem connected to the WAN port, right?

If you go by the PCB printing, only the (in your picture) left rj45 connector, the one with the blue cable, is marked for PoE(-in).

That explains that :frowning: this is the WAN port. And yes, when you make an effort to read what written on the router it's marked as 2.5GBit PoE :wink:
That's imho a weird design decision. Are there really modem out there than can inject PoE?
Either way, thanks for helping me to figure that out and sorry for not reading the port right away.

You can switch the port order around as necessary, two line change in /etc/config/network.

I will give this a try. Thanks for the suggestion. I don't get anything close on Gbit on WAN anyway

During run my openwrt one, I have met a usb storage can not detect issue . Record it in here, hope to help someone.

In one day, I followed the document to upgrade firmware by usb storage device. But found my router always can not detect usb storage decice:

starting USB...
Bus xhci@11200000: xhci-mtk xhci@11200000: hcd: 0x0000000011200000, ippc: 0x0000000011203e00
xhci-mtk xhci@11200000: ports disabled mask: u3p-0x1, u2p-0x0
xhci-mtk xhci@11200000: u2p:1, u3p:1
Register 200010f NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.10
scanning bus xhci@11200000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
** Bad device specification usb 0 **
Couldn't find partition usb 0:1
Can't set block device

To reslove this issue, I run setenv usb_pgood_delay 4000 in uboot. usb for storage devices detect successfully
ref: u-boot usb mass storage discovery problems

OpenWrt One> setenv usb_pgood_delay 4000
OpenWrt One> usb reset
resetting USB...
Bus xhci@11200000: xhci-mtk xhci@11200000: hcd: 0x0000000011200000, ippc: 0x0000000011203e00
xhci-mtk xhci@11200000: ports disabled mask: u3p-0x1, u2p-0x0
xhci-mtk xhci@11200000: u2p:1, u3p:1
Register 200010f NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.10
scanning bus xhci@11200000 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found
OpenWrt One> run usb_recovery
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@HIDE-r interesting I will add usb_pgood_delay to the default env. Thanks for figuring this one out

I'm really excited to see an "in house" hardware platform coming to life. It should give users a platform with some level of confidence of working well, without issues and for a long time. Congrats to the players who made this happen. I'm interested. Just looking close at the board reveals some features I've wanted to see in a router that is reasonably priced. M.2/mem config/easy access to data pins/direct console, etc....

That said, I hope the "TWO" will have more Ethernet ports (at least 4 plus the WAN). I came to OpenWRT for DSA. But we need ports to Distribute to.

Is there a way to disable the Wi-Fi card? If I purchase an openwrt one it will only be a router. I have a wrt1200ac for wifi that is better located in the space then where the router must be located.

Why? OpenWrt OOB doesn’t enable wi-fi by default. I use a WRT1900ACS AP for IOT/Guest devices and a ZyXEL NWA50AX Pro as a whole house AP for my trusted devices. I don’t use wifi on the OpenWrt One because they will be going to family eventually and it’s then just a matter of dropping my X86 box back in place, nothing to be done.

I wasn't sure if they changed the default to on for this device. Thank you for confirming that WiFi is still disabled by default. I will be purchasing a couple units shortly.

Just wondering and bouncing off this, with SQM off, IPv4 NAT on, both WiFi enabled... can the One handle 1Gbit down and/or upload on a FTTH connection? It's really not clear from any of the available infomation on chips/software/wiki/etc.


As an aside, I have a 20W USB-C PD Power Adapter handy, 5v=3A 9v=2.22A 12v=1.66A; would this be acceptable to power the router? To me, it seems I need a 15V USB-C PD adapter...

As well, just wondering because I'm a bit confused...
I can order from say, another seller on Aliexpress offering free shipping, the product appears to be the same, but they have the US power adapter bundle in stock whereas BiPai does not at the moment.

But does SPC still get $10 in support? And would the device be legitimate?

Thank you!

Correct, comes in the kit.

The unit comes in a kit including 3 antennas, PS w/cable, case, foot pads, small screwdriver w/spare screws, OR assembled board only. I would be wary about any vendor that says the PS doesn't come in the kit.

Box depicted in the review photo from your link is identical to what I received via Sinovoip that I ordered from.

According to post 1 here Yes.

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Looks like the included power supply is US or EU only. Anyone know if the EU one will work in Australia (240V) AC, realizing I'd need to find an EU-AU adapter?

Otherwise what are he specs for something compatible I can source locally?

The tolerances (± 23 V) for 230 VAC in Europe are intentionally set to cover Australia as well.

Yes. And any usb-c pd adapter capable of more than 27 W should also work.

Hello,

First power-up my OpenWrt One works with SNAPSHOT, everything is operational.

My observation:
I was wondering why NAND only had 201 MiB instead of 256 MiB. After reading this Topic, I understood that the device was delivered with factory flashed SPI NAND.
Furthermore, the NOR jumper is not plugged into its SPI NOR WP slot.

My question:
Before doing the sysupgrade, should the NOR jumper be inserted and then removed after the flash. This is not specified in "OpenWrtOne-HowTo".

I think, probably wrongly, that sysupgrade does a NOR update.

Thank you for your feedback.

On my unit, the NOR WP jumper was populated on arrival and remains there still. I am still not entirely sure how this jumper is used. It seems it should be in place in order for NOR boot loader to unlock/enable NOR flashing, and re-lock on exit, and then removed to prevent any inordinate NOR mods.

Blogic indicated he would clarify this in this thread Cautionary tale - bricked OpenWRT One on first day, but I haven’t seen anything yet to that effect.

In normal operation the NAND/NOR switch should be set to NAND, and to upgrade firmware I have used the method shown in https://one.openwrt.org/hardware/OpenWrtOne-HowTo.pdf under the topic I want to upgrade the firmware using a usb, also rebooting into the initramfs recovery mode and initiating a typical sysupgrade via both LuCI and ssh, as well as just running sysupgrade from the current firmware.

So SPI NOR is not touched by a firmware upgrade.

Hello,

Thanks for the feedback, your explanations reassure me because this new material, confuses me a little. The topics will allow to know it better and to understand it. In Martinique, the CR1220 battery is absent. But Internet is there.

Have a nice day

Installing .IPK packages

I have a personal Huawei B818-263 4G/5g router with a Free mobile CaraĂŻbes Sim card. My Internet connection works but the router does not connect to the Internet.

When updating packages with LuCI, I have this message: * opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity. The opkg update command failed with code 7.

With PuTTY, the opkg update function does not work.

I cannot create personal firmware with the "firmware selector openwrt-org" because of the lack of Internet connectivity

I downloaded all the necessary .IPK packages with: Index of (root) / releases / packages-24.10 / aarch64_cortex-a53 /

Can you explain to me how to install these IPK files in the router with PuTTY.

What are the command lines to use because I know nothing about it.

I have always used LuCI for package updates

Thanks for your feedback