Can anyone help with setting up an Openwrt BT Homehub 5 with 25.12.4 firmware for Plusnet fibre?
I have found conflicting advice online and nothing that exactly matches what I see so on my spare router I've removed the the old wan interface , created a new wan interface for the red port and edited the dsl section in /etc/config/network to match info I found online.
The engineer is booked for Thursday so I'm not able to test until then so if anyone has done this recently and can advise that would be great.
I've got a Hub 2 router coming just in case to avoid the risk of losing the internet until I get Openwrt working 
Have you looked at this page?
https://www.plus.net/help/broadband/broadband-connection-settings/
There are also multiple Plusnet threads on the forum, if you use the search.
The Plusnet advice is a bit vague and when I've searched for Openwrt open reach or Plusnet I've found conflicting information possibly due to fibre to cab and fibre to property having different settings and people not knowing which they had?
For instance the 101 vlan some advice is to create and some say it is not required.
Hence my post asking if anyone has done this recently.
I'll sort it out one way or the other in Thursday when I can test settings, just trying to save time
@Pasotibbs which are you getting, fibre to the cab (FTTC) ( confusingly call Fibre ) or fibre to the property FTTP ( Full fibre ) ?
If its FTTC then you need to connect to the DSL port and set VLAN ID 101. If its FTTP then use the WAN port with no VLAN ID ( the ONT handles the vlan).
IIRC the HH5 doesnt work too well using Openwrt and the WAN port. I believe it resets daily.
It's full fibre as I understand it as currently on copper cable and these are being replaced country wide
In that case , I dont think I'd bother with Openwrt on the HH5. As I said, I believe it has problems that it resets periodically when the DSL interface isnt active. Also , its throughput is quite limited , so if you are getting one of the faster Full fibre products, it just wont be able to handle it.
If you do want to try it, then you dont need any VLAN ID set. For info, I've had Plusnet Full fibre for a few years now using Openwrt routers, and so am pretty familar with the settings.
Cheers, openreach actually visited this am and installed fibre to outside wall and apparently the rest is now going to be done in 2 weeks not on Thursday, not sure why you choose a day then they turn up randomly without notice and then give a completely different date for the install 
Went for the slowest connection, speed isn't an issue as currently 350kB is the best I've ever seen on the current connection so even 1MB will be amazing
I may try the HH5 just to see and if I have any issues but suspect I'll just have to use the supplied router instead.
Thanks for the help.
I;m assuming by that you mean Full Fibre 74. In which case the HH5 running OPenwrt may be able to handle it.
As regards the periodic rebooting when not using DSL , its known as the 'DSL reboot bug'
apparently the fix is
DSL Reboot Bug (BT Home Hub 5A / Plusnet One only)
A watchdog bug was discovered which causes the hub to reboot between 24-48 hours if the hub is not connected to an active xDSL line. From Ebilan Forum
To Fix: disable dsl_control service. If the DSL port is not going to be used, which it isnt with this configuration.
Goto (System --> Startup)
Find the line with dsl_control
Click the 'Enabled' button (this disabled the service from the startup configuration.
Click the 'Stop' button (this immediately stops the service.
You do not need to click 'Save & Apply' for these settings to take affect.
Hope that helps
Cheers I'll give it a go
Made the change you suggested re DSL reboot, below is the edited /etc/config/network I made using info I found online (mac's, ip's etc removed)
hopefully it looks correct ?
config interface 'loopback'
option device 'lo'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
option netmask '255.0.0.0'
config globals 'globals'
option ula_prefix ''
option packet_steering '1'
option dhcp_default_duid ''
config atm-bridge 'atm'
option vpi '1'
option vci '32'
option encaps 'llc'
option payload 'bridged'
option nameprefix 'dsl'
config dsl 'dsl'
option annex 'b'
option ds_snr_offset '0'
option xfer_mode 'ptm'
option line_mode 'vdsl'
config device
option name 'br-lan'
option type 'bridge'
list ports 'lan1'
list ports 'lan2'
list ports 'lan3'
list ports 'lan4'
config device
option name 'lan1'
option macaddr ''
config device
option name 'lan2'
option macaddr ''
config device
option name 'lan3'
option macaddr ''
config device
option name 'lan4'
option macaddr ''
config interface 'lan'
option device 'br-lan'
option proto 'static'
option ipaddr ''
option netmask '255.255.255.0'
option ip6assign '60'
list dns ''
list dns ''
list dns '9.9.9.9'
list dns '8.8.8.8'
option multipath 'off'
config device
option name 'dsl0'
option macaddr ''
config interface 'wan'
option proto 'pppoe'
option device 'wan'
option username '@plusdsl.net'
option password ''
option service 'plus.net'
option ipv6 'auto'
option mtu '1492'
option norelease '1'
option multipath 'off'
Looks fairly good to me. If the atm-bridge appears in the list of interfaces in LUCI then you may want to delete it to tidy up.
I'd suggest setting option ipv6 to '0' at the moment since Plusnet don't currently support ipv6 (well not unless you're on the trial!)
Also I assume you've just redacted the pppoe username and you know you need your accountname before the @plusdsl.net and the password is the one you use to access the member centre at www.plus.net/login
Done as you suggested, just got to wait 2 weeks to test
Thanks for your help