As in the title, is there any opensource or friendly open Wireless Access Point? or DIY solution ? I don’t ask for easy one, as long as it is performant.
I have actually two UniFi AP but these cloudy devices are getting on my nerve and honestly.
Ah, ok. That’s for the old ones. I’m using the nanoHD and a gifted AC lite.
The devices work nicely, the software however, I’m not liking it a lot. As long as they work they can stay, but already I’m battling to keep their software running, as I’m running Debian trixie and unifi wants a mongodb install that isn’t available anymore.
Openwrt is really cool. I was the lead engineer on a router that was essentially a fork of openwrt. If you’re willing to learn Lua and figure out how it all works despite their nearly non-existent documentation, you can customize the UI, add new UI elements, or even add whole new UI pages. For example, on our router, we added an IPsec package, so I had to make a UI page for it.
The whole gimmick of our router was that it could be configured by the smart home controller that the company was already selling. So I designed and implemented a whole REST API in Lua on it.
It was a really fun project. But then a mega corporation bought us, so I bailed because they sucked.
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To add to that, it’s very likely OPs Ubiquiti devices are supported!
They are. I get dozens of them to refurb and they always get bought on eBay for this.
How do you manage to flash them, as OpenWRT states that of 2018 they aren’t supported anymore. (Ubi decided to sign the firmware)
You have to do some digging to get downgrade firmware. This site has a working link to v3.2 https://www.kiwivoip.co.nz/support/unifi-uap-lr-old-firmware-upgrade/
I’ve never actually done the process tbh. All I know is I keep cleaning them up and people keep buying them in packs of 3 🤷
I refuse to install Unifi equipment nowadays. They’ve alienated professional installers over the years in favour of targeting prosumers.
Ah, ok. That’s for the old ones. I’m using the nanoHD and a gifted AC lite. The devices work nicely, the software however, I’m not liking it a lot. As long as they work they can stay, but already I’m battling to keep their software running, as I’m running Debian trixie and unifi wants a mongodb install that isn’t available anymore.
Openwrt is really cool. I was the lead engineer on a router that was essentially a fork of openwrt. If you’re willing to learn Lua and figure out how it all works despite their nearly non-existent documentation, you can customize the UI, add new UI elements, or even add whole new UI pages. For example, on our router, we added an IPsec package, so I had to make a UI page for it.
The whole gimmick of our router was that it could be configured by the smart home controller that the company was already selling. So I designed and implemented a whole REST API in Lua on it.
It was a really fun project. But then a mega corporation bought us, so I bailed because they sucked.
Almond?
This is the way. Been using oWRT APs (routers in dumb AP mode) for more as 10 years.