Remove "You normally do this via the web interface of the original firmware" from factory images in F-S?

frollic · April 22, 2026, 2:52pm

It's kind of misleading.

I've come across at least two recent threads where people bought devices based on this statement, and assumed the factory image could be ULed directly through the stock webUI.

If you're changing the F-S frontend, perhaps add a search towards https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt/ where the search word is the name of the device selected in F-S ?

efahl · April 22, 2026, 6:10pm

That worked great for the one I tried it out on:

https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt/log/?qt=grep&q=tplink_archer-c7-v4

frollic · April 22, 2026, 6:26pm

I know it works, but it should be presented as a search link from F-S when you've selected a device.

I'm guessing a deep link is hard to generate, since there's no connection between image and git commit.

efahl · April 22, 2026, 7:19pm

By "it worked" I meant that the search actually produced meaningful results, which is most often not the case.

A quick little script in buildroot to search the mt7622 devices show about 18-19 of 25 give meaningless results:

$ scripts/dump-target-info.pl devices mediatek/mt7622 | while read line; do
    xdg-open "$(echo "$line" | awk '{printf "https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt/log/?qt=grep&q=%s", $1}')"
done

frollic · April 22, 2026, 7:23pm

I can imagine the hit ratio improves the newer the device.

efahl · April 22, 2026, 7:53pm

Hmm, just tried first 20 mediatek/filogic devices and 14 were fails...

Doesn't the ToH list the initial commit somewhere? I couldn't find it on the couple I looked at.

frollic · April 22, 2026, 7:55pm

the hwdata pages do, but far from all devices have those, it's also not a mandatory field.

frollic · April 23, 2026, 8:12am

We're kind of getting side tracked, the main "issue" was the "You normally do this via the web interface of the original firmware” writing at F-S.

Anyway, a while back I was considering creating a script that would extract and announce new devices getting supported, I had a look at the merged PRs, and noticed most of them used a template.

If you'd only pick up the model (cut out everything left of and including) the underscore and add "add support" to the search string (which is the title of the template), you might have better luck.
It won't work for older hw though, the template wasn't used back then.

Simply removing the vendor_ from the URLs you posted improves things considerably.