Tplink eap610-outdoor

Hi
I'm hoping for some help, I'm new to opentwrt and I have install it on two TP-Link CPE510s and a TP-Link 1201v2 with great success, I have a 6 TP-Links EAP610-Outdoor access running standalone, with two running a mesh link ( I have to run Omada for this ), I would love to install openwrt on the 610-outdoor but can only see that its still in development stage, can anyone advice me on if its ok to install openwrt on these units or is it better to wait, and also can openwrt do a mesh system with vlans.

Thanks

Adam

What exactly will you be installing, there are no images, AFAIK ?

That's my question really, I guess that the images are made for each device independently? I was hoping I could maybe get my hands on a test image etc.
Also dose anybody know if the unit will have a image made and if so how long?

Adam

Yes, most images are device specific.

When one will be available, depends on when "someone" does the work required to get image generation going.

That someone usually owns the device being added.

Right. can anyone point me in the right direction to help.
Adam

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/add.new.device

I found out, that there is an image out there now...
does someone tried it already?

https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/qualcommax/ipq60xx/openwrt-qualcommax-ipq60xx-tplink_eap610-outdoor-squashfs-web-ui-factory.bin
https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/qualcommax/ipq60xx/openwrt-qualcommax-ipq60xx-tplink_eap610-outdoor-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

it would be nice, because today i recieved this device

Hi

Yes I have install the snapshot onto 5 tp-link 610-outdoor v1 with no issues, the install was easy,

My steps
Login to the unit as normal using tp-link web software set the IP address to static then follow this instructions

This is my collection of other peoples commands, please read up and follow with care.

Installation:

Web UI method

Set up the device using the vendor's web UI. After that go to
Management->SSH and enable the "SSH Login" checkbox. Select "Save".
The connect to the machine via SSH:

ssh -o hostkeyalgorithms=ssh-rsa <ip_of_device>

Disable signature verification:

cliclientd stopcs

Rename the "-web-ui-factory" image to something less than 63
characters, maintaining the ".bin" suffix.

  • Go to System -> Firmware Update.
  • Under "New Firmware File", click "Browse" and select the image
  • Select "Update" and confirm by clicking "OK".

If the update fails, the web UI should show an error message.
Otherwise, the device should reboot into OpenWRT.

TFTP method

To flash via tftp, first place the initramfs image on the TFTP server.

setenv serverip <ip of tftp server>
setenv ipaddr <ip in same subnet as tftp server>
tftpboot tplink_eap610-outdoor-initramfs-uImage.itb
bootm

This should boot OpenWRT. Once booted, flash the sysupgrade.bin image
using either luci or the commandline.

The tplink2022 image format

The vendor images of this device are packaged in a format that does
not match any previous tplink formats. In order for flashing to work
from the vendor's web UI, firmware updates need to be packaged in
this format. The tplink-mkimage-2022.py is provided for this
purpose.

This script can also analyze vendor images, and extract the required
"support" string. This string is checked by the vendor firmware, and
images with a missing or incorrect string are rejected.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc mr.nuke.me@gmail.com
Link: openwrt#14922
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko robimarko@gmail.com
eap610-outdoor (openwrt/openwrt#14922)


Install Luci

apk update
apk add luci
apk update
apk add luci-ssl
/etc/init.d/uhttpd restart
uci set uhttpd.main.redirect_https=1
uci commit uhttpd
service uhttpd reload

I found the static IP address I set on my units never got removed so very easy to setup in a working environment.

Hope this helps
Adam

isn't this a C&P from https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=a00ff9f6d13f6ff5eae57be70a270ccd668d5240 ?

Hi yes I believe so.
Then all you have to do is install Luci.

I’m not sure about that exactly, but there are (at least) two OpenWrt derivatives focused on mesh:

LibreMesh - https://libremesh.org/ - can be installed on many OpenWrt devices, makes most sense if the device has two radios, and even better if the device has three radios. I have used it with great success.

AREDN - https://www.arednmesh.org/content/supported-devices-0 - has a limited set of devices supported, and EAP610-Outdoor isn’t on the list, but maybe it could be ported. I have never used it.