Ubiquiti making it increasingly difficult to install LEDE on Unifi hardware

[tmomas]

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Are Ubiquiti Blocking Lede Installation?

Hi all, It appears from some research that Ubiquiti may have started proactively blocking the installation of 3rd Party Firmware on their WiFi Devices. We have experienced this issue on the Ubiquiti UAP V2 and Ubiquiti themselves have refused to officially confirm or deny that they are. As we are a sizeable Wireless Operator who, to-date, have used Ubiquiti kit extensively within our predominately Open Source infrastructure, this will cause us some issues! Does anyone else have any knowledge…

Are Ubiquiti actively blocking installation of Third Party Firmware?

In my particular case this question relates the UniFi AP v2 but has more general implications. One would imagine this to be a simple question to answer with a yes or no answer but not for Ubiquiti it seems. I have been asking this question of Ubiquiti for about a month now after having problems loading OpenWRT 15.05.1 into a number of UniFi AP v2 units. The answers from Level 1 support (via their forums) has been, "It shouldn't be blocked" (hoping for a Yes or No), "It's ok in the latest relea…