I am the president of the Cabrillo College robotics club in Santa Cruz, California.
We have a robot that competes in the MATE ROV underwater robotics competition.
We are using ros and a raspberry pi on the robot and an ethernet cable in the tether and then we have a router on the surface and a laptop for the rqt interface.
we won the 2022 competition in the pioneer class.
because of our win people are giving us money and I want to improve our controller setup with some of that.
our mess of cables and devices took too long to setup and we got a setup time penalty.
for the 2023 competition we are building a shore controller into a rifle case
two monitors in the lid with a bezel laser cut in the school maker space.
for the bottom of the case we will have
a 12v psu
a 5v psu
a single board computer (pi or jetson, or other, haven't decided yet)
and a router
our bezel for the bottom will have panel mount connectors
a iec-c13 for power in to the power supplies
an ethernet connector of some kind for the tether (probably a bulgin connector since they are sponsoring us)
ethernet and power jacks for secondary laptops for development and debug
I need help finding the router to put in there
router requirements:
openwrt (duh)
1gig ethernet (1 wan 4 lan minimum but more is better)
2.4 and 5ghz wifi (we use one for client to steal wifi from venue and one for ap for additional monitors
mpcie slot or m.2 slot for an epo6a or em06a (cellular for when we cant steal venue wifi)
accepts 12v or 5v input
if there was a mikrotik hap with a mpcie slot and has openwrt support that would be perfect for us but that doesnt exist
is there anything with a similar footprint to a hap that has cellular as well?
(arm for the soc would be nice but not required)
let me know if you have any ideas for a router that would work for us to embed in our controls box
root@router:/# opkg install ath10k-board-qca988x ath10k-firmware-qca988x kmod-ath kmod-ath10k kmod-ath9k kmod-ath9k-common
Package ath10k-board-qca988x (20220411-1) installed in root is up to date.
Package ath10k-firmware-qca988x (20220411-1) installed in root is up to date.
Package kmod-ath (5.10.146+5.15.58-1-1) installed in root is up to date.
Package kmod-ath10k (5.10.146+5.15.58-1-1) installed in root is up to date.
Package kmod-ath9k (5.10.146+5.15.58-1-1) installed in root is up to date.
Package kmod-ath9k-common (5.10.146+5.15.58-1-1) installed in root is up to date.
root@router:/#
ok cool got those installed (forgot to copy output on first run so second time to verify install)
wireless tab shows up now! yay
got usbutils installed
root@router:/# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0610 USB2.0 Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1199:9071 Sierra Wireless, Incorporated Sierra Wireless EM7455 Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X7 LTE-A
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux 5.10.146 xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux 5.10.146 xhci-hcd xHCI Host Controller
root@router:/#
looks like its an EM7455 just like the sticker says