I know to what you're referring, I just don't have enough knowledge to know what code to add in order to manipulate those leds
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If those are your max ISP speeds then everything it's good, I had the opportunity of using this router with OpenWRT on a suburban house (no interference) and 2.4ghz coverage was almost as good as a Netgear R6400.
It was a 2 story house, 50mbps fiber and I was able of getting 40mbps on a low end Samsung 1x1 client on 2.4ghz which was located on the basement while the ac2 was on the upper floor
Yep, it's maximum.
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Any plans how to migrate from ROS7 to OpenWRT?
Downgrade to 6.X, backup your license then follow the steps described on the wiki. I used Tiny XPE to send the initial .elf the do a sysupgrade and wait for it to reboot.
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Users want to jump from ROS7 to OpenWRT.
This way is more actually and this issue needs to be addressed.
Netinstall works correctly to re-install ROS as long as you have the license key backup
Tested it for an hour even after "fine tuning" 2.4GHz was completely unreliable (10-20mbps speed) and 5GHz had periodic speed drops and ping spikes so I inmediately reverted back to OpenWRT, WiFi it's now as good wired (75mbps for 5ghz and 70mbps for 2.4).
PD: didn't had enough time to test install from ROS 7.1 but it should work if the user haven't updated Routerboard FW to 7.1
@geminis3 is correct, switching from ROS 7.1 works but only if you DIDN'T update the routerBOARD firmware to version 7.1. Tested by myself.
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Yes, I mean migrare from ROS 7.x with the latest routerBOARD to OpenWRT.
Updating RouterBoard actually updates the bootloader of the device, and this OpenWRT port was made using a device with 6.X bootloader. At least downgrading a Mikrotik router it's as easy as drag & dropping the previous version and reboot so users can easily downgrade to 6.X when 7.X gets released. They can also revert to ROS with Netinstall if they backup their license.
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Support for Mikrotik Hap AC2 will be official by OpenWRT or not?
From a user perspective, this is not a good way to go.
Time to hack ROS 7.X 
Both Mikrotik and OpenWRT targets are advanced users and they should be comfortable downgrading software in order to achieve their purpose, currently the main goal it's to boot an ELF image without requiring uboot so it can be merged into upstream branch.
For me the main thing that support for Mikrotik hAP ac^2 will be added in the next release of OpenWRT and into the main stream. Deal?
without requiring uboot
Is this even possible?
- So we are a bunch of people who share a common goal, i.e. get MikroTik hAP ac2 into official openwrt branch.
- The only reason which is kind of a show stopper for this is that proprietary uboot?
- If the problem with uboot has beed solved it will be possible to start other IPQ40xx based MikroTik openwrt ports?
- Unfortunately, we have no programming skills
- We need a programmer who knows what he has to do.
- We need a programmer who is willing to program this
- How many hours, days, weeks of programming work are we talking about?
- For getting money we could start a new project at www.kickstarter.com. I feel confident that we are not the only ones, that want to have better wifi on our MikroTik devices..
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As you say - no official support OpenWRT in this repo https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/ will be for the Mikrotik Hap AC2. I'm right?
This build seems to break 5GHz for me, on both hAP AC2 and cAP AC.
Reports TX power as 0 no matter what I set it to. Previous build works fine
As I said I didn't tested that build personally, you can use the last known good (as I do currently) or build it from source following the steps I posted somewhere in this thread.
Fair enough, mainly just wanted to put some feedback so if anyone else comes through looking for builds they can avoid having to flash multiple times.
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Build link removed, thanks