Long story short... Many people used to work on OpenWrt, and then they split into two groups, and the second group called their fork of OpenWrt >  LEDE.

It seemed like a majority of developers went with the 2nd group, and provide multiple daily updates, so I decided to start sharing snapshots from LEDE. It's really personal preference or subjective which one is better.

If you haven't tried LEDE yet, feel free to download and try the LEDE snapshot that I have compiled.  However, keep in mind, if you go to LEDE, you can't save any of your OpenWrt settings, so just uncheck the box "keep settings". This means if you flash, it will be fresh and has no knowledge of any OpenWrt settings.

I don't know how many setting's you've changed from stock values... So, it's hard to say how much work it will be to getting the LEDE image to where you want it.

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Last night I was able to compile all kernel-mods, Luci-apps and packages.

This is really good news moving forward, as we will have a full package repo.

Added Rango (3200ACM) builds to the webpage, and linked the WRT1X00AC/S Series Wiki via a new tab in the davidc502 builds section.

Would you consider including ACL support? It looks like the file system kmods don't have it enabled and the `acl` package is not being built. Personally I find ACLs to be a big help in managing shared directories permissions.

@ryandbair

Testing shows building all possible packages won't be a problem moving forward.

Thanks for this! You running a 3200 yet?

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I'll get one after I have a device or two that supports tri-band.

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Ah, OK. I was thinking it was explicitly disabled.

Thanks

David,
Are there any screenshots of how LEDE looks versus OpenWRT. Also its looking like LEDE is going to be the more updated version. I may make the switch and i read where you said all packages were compiled. I use the luci-app-access-control would that work as well since its not a standard app?

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Am I correct in assuming that using your builds and the updates imclude the newest WiFi driver?

Also, is there any plans to use TLS for your website? Perhaps using one of the certificates from EFF so it doesn't cost you anything?

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Currently I've been compiling the "material" theme, but it works the same way and with the same features as what you are used to with theme-OpenWrt.  And if you don't like it you can uninstall 'material' and install the default, which will look the same way except will say "LEDE" instead of "OpenWRT" for the brand image.

As for luci-app-access-control --  I did a search and couldn't find that app as an option. Do you know if this is something new?

Thanks,

Yes -- Latest wifi drivers are included.

No plans to use TLS. If we were passing credentials, PII, or some other private type of information it would have been done already. However, everything is public, so I haven't felt the need.  However, I've been known to overlook good reason, so if you have some, let me know.

BTW -- Thanks for letting me know about EFF as I didn't know it existed.

Best Regards,

Good reason for SSL/TLS: Make it harder for the government to encrypt all traffic. Therefore just use a certificate from Lets Encrypt. :-) letsencrypt(dot)org

Great to hear that all packages have been built. But they are not yet released to your site, correct? I'm missing the ldns package for drill.

Running the latest build and seem fine so far. No sudden wifi drops.

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That's correct -- The packages aren't out there.... Yet.   The next build will include the missing packages. I usually update about once every two weeks, but I see there's been a BQL patch issues for mvneta, so I'm going to try and push the timetable up.

Thank you for the awesome Build. LEDE has been smooth on my WRT1900ac V1.
Thank you for adding the LUCI-MOD-RPC My Home Assistant now runs flawlessly.

TDW

David,

Can you update an image for Rango WRT3200ACM?
Currently it is Hydra (HEAD, r2166) and "opkg update" is failing...

What is the package source list?

I'm not allowed to post links.
pastebin.com/QmwYEQmA

Thanks!

please verify these are your feeds.

src/gz hydra_core http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r2221/targets/mvebu/generic/packages
src/gz hydra_base http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r2221/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/base
src/gz hydra_telephony http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r2221/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/telephony
src/gz hydra_packages http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r2221/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/packages
src/gz hydra_routing http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r2221/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/routing
src/gz hydra_luci http://davidc502sis.dynamic-dns.net/snapshots/r2221/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/luci

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By the way... You are the first I've talked to with ACM.  How is Wifi working on this unit?

It prevents easy manipulation of the traffic for exploitation. For instance retrieving the package list from your site will now give an attacker the version information of the firmware. And I'd imagine they could eventually cause an overflow by preemptively sending a spoofed package list response. With TLS they just see the domain accessed and not the specific site URLs.
Reading LWN has made me more paranoid I guess.

Never mind I see what happened. That is a slightry older build.

I should have new builds up Thursday.

Have anyone tested /extroot or /overlay on an external USB drive? I'm having serious problems that /overlay is not remounted  after reboot. Need to manually issue PREINIT=1 mnt_root to get my settings back from the USB drive. And mnt_root kills both wifi radios, unable to get the working until reboot. Ding, catch 22.

I just updated to HEAD, r2221 and boy did a make a mistake. There's shitton of packages missing. For example, transmission, is there nobody using this anymore? Can't find it in any built repos, argh...

Currently in the process of compiling new builds which will include all packages that can compile cleanly.

I had updated SNMP from 5.4.4 to 5.7.3, but had to roll back. It appears collectd is dependent on snmp, and it doesn't like something about the upgrade

Ultimately, I want to work on getting snmpv3 working, and expand some of the mib modules. Though snmp isn't one of the more popular packages, snmpv3 should have been working for a few years now. I really don't know if I'll be able to get it going, but plan to start working on it over the next 3 days, and over some of Christmas vacation.