Hi all. I purchased a Xiaomi Router 6500 Pro and am very dissatisfied with their firmware. I didn’t find OpenWRT for it, is there a release planned? If not, then with your help I would take part in the development of the firmware as a tester.
There's never a plan.
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/add.new.device
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/adding_new_device
I'm not very strong in the concepts that are mentioned there, one thing I realized is that there is no kernel for the Qualcomm IPQ5322 platform. Ssh does not work, most likely it is blocked in the native firmware. The instructions given here https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/add.new.platform are not clear to me.
then it's a dead end, until it's been added.
You need to roll back to the earliest firmware and use the XMiR-Patcher utility
After this operation, wifi stopped working and rebooting did not help. Resetting to factory settings only helped
So first you need to roll back to version 1.0.46
I apologize for not answering for a long time. I needed GRE and my own static DNS records, and by using a local server running my sites I solved this problem. There is no more time for experiments. I can’t stop my resources for a long time... Thank you for your understanding. Perhaps in the future, when there is ready-made firmware with debugged instructions, I will switch to OpenWRT.
I will give this a try on Sunday of this week. I will let you know what I find. Is there any information or logs that you might need to get OpenWRT working on this router?