Hello pals,

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.

    • DandroidEnglish
      17•1 year ago

      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.

      • @SmoochPoochEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        They are. I get dozens of them to refurb and they always get bought on eBay for this.

        • @TheInsane42English
          6•1 year ago

          How do you manage to flash them, as OpenWRT states that of 2018 they aren’t supported anymore. (Ubi decided to sign the firmware)

          • @SmoochPoochEnglish
            6•1 year ago

            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.

            • @TheInsane42English
              2•1 year ago

              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.