Anyone have any experience of using these APs with Openwrt?
If so, I'd love to have some feedback before forking out $150 per AP (performance, integration, etc.)
They are not supported under OpenWrt
Could you please be more specific as to why you say "it's not supported"? These APs just plug into an ethernet port. So bridge the port they're plugged into with the LAN port on the Openwrt, turn off the DHCP service on the Unifi APs and Bob's your uncle.
Of course, Openwrt won't be able to manage the APs themselves, but that's not an issue for me.
Because no one that has one has added support for it, really simple.
That doesn't answer my question. What "support" does it need to make it work? It should just work bridged to the lan port...I'm not wanting to install Openwrt on the device. Just use it on my network
It needs OpenWrt support, in order for OpenWrt to run on it.
You can just flash a generic image and use that.
OpenWrt needs to be customized for every device, in this case its supportable as SoC and WLAN adapters are MT7621+MT7603 but someone with the device and time needs to add support for it.
Lol....I said I don't want to install Openwrt on it. Of course you can't install Openwrt on these APs. What would be the point of buying them just to install Openwrt on them?
I just want to use them on my network. I've previously ported Openwrt to new platforms, so I'm familiar with they fact that it needs to be customized for new devices
Are you serious?
Your question was:
Anyone have any experience of using these APs with Openwrt?
If so, I'd love to have some feedback before forking out $150 per AP (performance, integration, etc.)
If I know how to read, your question was how good OpenWrt works on them.
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I said "with". Not "on"....Anyone have any experience of using these APs with Openwrt? However, I did clarify my requirement in post 4. stating that I don't want to install Openwrt on them, just use them.
Thanks for the reply though.
I understand your question to refer to a Ubiquiti device running vendor firmware, its performance and its interoperability with another router running OpenWrt. I will adjust the subject accordingly.
For those issues that are unrelated to OpenWrt, you might get better answers in a Ubiquiti forum.
OpenWrt has no features to control Ubiquiti access points running their UniFi firmware; you will need their controller hardware or software somewhere in your network, or use their cloud service.
OpenWrt works like other routers in using industry standards to pass data from the APs to the Internet.