Problem installing OpenWRT onto Cudy AP3000 (Outdoor)

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I'm back again.

In my last post I simply had the wrong hardware as I was shipped the incorrect item. Now, owever, I can confirm on the device's enclosure itself and in the Cudy web interface that I am indeed using an AP3000 Outdoor V1.0.

My question is now, how do I flash a firmware onto it?

I am using the firmware image openwrt-24.10.1-mediatek-filogic-cudy_ap3000outdoor-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin from the firmware selector hosted by the OpenWRT team. However I seem to be getting this error after uploading the image to the web flasher of Cudy's:

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Any advice would be greatly appreciated! :slight_smile:

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Use the interim Openwrt image provided by Cudy.

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Found it. Flashing now....

So from my understanding this unlocks the firmware to allow flashing other images?

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The Cudy interim image flashed correctly.

Now flashing the one mentioned earlier...

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I have the Cudy TR3000 in use as a travel router. Believe it's the same internal hardware.

Flashing with the Cudy provided image and then vanilla OpenWrt worked perfectly! Hope you had the same experience?

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It did, thanks!

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Thanks @frollic and @Falco for your help!

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I cannot flash the interim image. It accepts the image for flashing, but it bricks the AP and I need to do a recovery. Is this happening anybody else?

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how do you know it's bricked ?

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Cannot access the AP,led light is red, the only thing I can do is put it in recovery mode

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via ethernet, I assume ... ?

you could try to flash the sysupgrade image directly from there, I read somewhere it's doable.

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Yes, via ethernet. I tried flashing openwrt from recovery mode, it didn't work ( tried the initramfs kernel image, too)

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