OpenWrt Wireless Management Commands and Tools

OpenWrt Wireless Management Commands and Tools

View connected wireless clients to the OpenWrt router: 12 iwinfo wlan0 assoclistiw dev wlan0 station dump View allocated DHCP client IPs: 1 cat /tmp/dhcp.leases Scan wireless routers/APs: 1 iwinfo wlan0 scan View wireless information of the OpenWrt router: 12345678910111213 iwinfo wlan0 infowlan0 ESSID: "OpenWrt" Access Point: 00:1F:A3:65:55:8E Mode: Master Channel: 5 (2.432 GHz) Tx-Power: 20 … Read more

IoT Gateway Management Solutions Based on OpenWRT

IoT Gateway Management Solutions Based on OpenWRT

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has become an important part of the modern technological field, connecting devices to the internet and providing us with countless new applications. However, as the number of IoT devices increases, effectively managing and controlling these devices has become a challenge. To address this issue, we propose an IoT gateway … Read more

Introducing LEDE: A New Era for Embedded Linux Development

Introducing LEDE: A New Era for Embedded Linux Development

LEDE project is a spin-off of the OpenWrt project and shares many of the same goals. We are building an embedded Linux distribution that is easy for developers, system administrators, or other Linux enthusiasts to compile and customize software for embedded devices, especially wireless routers. The name LEDE stands for Linux Embedded Development Environment.The project … Read more

Installing HACS in Home Assistant on OpenWrt Soft Router (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

Installing HACS in Home Assistant on OpenWrt Soft Router (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

NO.1 Introduction to HACS What is HACS? HACS stands for Home Assistant Community Store, which can be understood as an application store. It can enhance plugin functionality and supplement features that are not implemented by the official version. NO.2 Installing HACS First, you need to enter the Docker container (in terminal form). Click on the … Read more

Getting Started with OpenWRT: Writing Firmware to USB for x86 Soft Routing

Getting Started with OpenWRT: Writing Firmware to USB for x86 Soft Routing

Recently, I’ve noticed that many friends want to try the soft routing system OpenWRT. Today, we’re starting to update various posts related to soft routing! What is a soft router? A soft router refers to using a desktop or server with software to create a routing solution, mainly relying on software settings to achieve the … Read more

The Split Between LEDE and OpenWrt: A Technical Overview

The Split Between LEDE and OpenWrt: A Technical Overview

(May 2016) Early in May, when a group of core OpenWrt developers announced that they would begin working on a derivative of OpenWrt (or possibly a branch) called the Linux Embedded Development Environment (LEDE), the OpenWrt user community was thrown into chaos. — Nathan Willis Table of Contents ◈ Responses and Questions25% ◈ Clarifications47% ◈ … Read more

Using code-server in Browser on OpenWrt (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

Using code-server in Browser on OpenWrt (NanoPi For NAS All In One R4S)

NO.1 Introduction to code-server GitHub address https://github.com/coder/code-server Documentation address https://coder.com/docs/code-server/latest VS Code in Browser Run VS Code anywhere on any machine and access it through the browser NO.2 Usage Scenarios Not very accustomed to the visual panel operation of Docker on OpenWrt Although all necessary variables are present and translated into Chinese, simple images can … Read more

Industrial IoT Gateway Development Board – Mill RZ/G2UL

Industrial IoT Gateway Development Board - Mill RZ/G2UL

Last time I introduced the Remi Pi launched by Mill, priced at only 198. This time we will look at another new product from Mill, which also uses a Renesas chip. However, the core board is cheaper. It is based on Renesas’s RZ/G2UL, featuring an ARM Cortex-A55 core with a frequency of up to 1GHz, … Read more

Creating a Personal Internet with Raspberry Pi: A Low-Cost Solution

Creating a Personal Internet with Raspberry Pi: A Low-Cost Solution

Recently, I came across a project called “Internet in a Box” which collects free resources from the internet, such as free courses and e-books, stores them on a large-capacity hard drive, and connects it to a Raspberry Pi to be donated to schools in underdeveloped countries. This allows students without access to the internet to … Read more

Rust Support in OpenWRT: A Comprehensive Guide

Rust Support in OpenWRT: A Comprehensive Guide

Prepare the environment: Install the source package and xargo. rustup add component rust-src cargo install xargo Specify the OpenWRT gcc environment: Copy the toolchain to the designated directory, or leave it in the source directory, and edit the specified toolchain’s bin directory in the bash script ~/.bashrc for xargo to use. Edit build.rs to specify … Read more