The procedure depicted above, using dhcp, is the most simple way to install a webinterface on OpenWrt - how you configure it afterwards is another issue (you can invoke firstboot to get to the original state).
Just got an Archer A7 (hardware v5.0) and it worked out of the box with snapshot firmware build.
Thanks everyone!
Is there any rough idea when this might be available in a stable build? I'm not really comfortable using a snapshot.
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Just got an Archer A7 (v5) and it worked fine. Flashed the snapshot build that @slh linked. Power cycled my modem to get internet, then SSH'd into 192.168.1.1 and installed luci (opkg update && opkg install luci).
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Just bought a A7 v5, updated to latest stock firmware Archer A7(US)_V5_181210 and installed the snapshot r9278-39273b8 via web interface without any issues.
Downside of a snapshot is you have to update opkg package list daily, or you will hit a hashsum mismatch error 
That's a bit alarming. Is that true if you only install luci or is it true if you install several other packages?
Simply put, it happens for almost every package, but that won't cause any obvious problems.
However, if you were using packages that relying on kernel mods (or k-mod-xxx), like fuse or 6-in-4, you should install them as soon as possible. As later when the new snapshots (and their corresponding packages) are released, opkg may report updated kernel mods incompatible with currently installed kernel.
That's good to know because I very nearly installed this on an A7 for my 86 year old mother and then left town. Now I will wait and exchange this A7 with my own C7 so that she can have something more reliable!
@Bunbury911 OpenWrt != dd-wrt
This is the OpenWrt forum.
Please ask this question in the dd-wrt forum.
hi there! can you help me to install gui to be able to roll back to stock or configure setting on the router? I an newbie to all this staff. I got a7 v5.0, and i installed this software over stock firmware, but now i can't configure anything
ttps://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ath79/generic/openwrt-ath79-generic-tplink_archer-a7-v5-squashfs-factory.bin
Just for the records:
I bought a A7 v5 by mistake (actually I wanted a C7), but I was able to flash the currently release withou any problems.
But despite many forum entries telling me, that A7 and C7 are almost identical, I found one major difference (apart from the missing USB connector..): The A7 only has one ethernet interface!
Running ls -l /sys/class/net on a C7 v5, I get (amongst others):
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 eth0 -> ../../devices/platform/ahb/19000000.eth/net/eth0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 eth1 -> ../../devices/platform/ahb/1a000000.eth/net/eth1
[...]
But the A7 only gives me:
A7:~# ls -l /sys/class/net
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 eth0 -> ../../devices/platform/ahb/19000000.eth/net/eth0
[...]
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This topic was intended for adding support for this specific device.
Since official 19.07.0 images are available since quite a while, I will set a timer for this topic to close.
Please open new topics for any open issues with this device.
Thanks! 
Did you try TFTP?
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