New router with OpenWrt compatibility out of the box! It’s a fork, but of what I am reading it’s similar approach to GL.iNet routers with little work to flash a vanilla version.
and three Gigabit Ethernet ports (in addition to an RJ45 input).
Wut 🤣
Banana Pi's $31 BPI-WiFi 6 router runs a fork of OpenWrt - Liliputing
Submitted 8 months ago by smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de to technology@lemmy.world
https://liliputing.com/banana-pis-31-bpi-wifi-6-router-runs-a-fork-of-openwrt/
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db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
They probably meant WAN port.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Triductor TR6560
Well there’s a name I haven’t heard before!
rem26_art@fedia.io 8 months ago
Sounds more like the name of a car engine or something lmao
bfg9k@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The all new Tremec Triductor TR6560
With 65 gears including overdrive, you’ll never run out of gears again
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
…When tf did Banana Pi come out? I have a whole new option for SBCs now?? Dope.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 months ago
Banana Pi, Orange Pi, etc really took off a few years ago when raspberry pi got harder to find and was marked up like crazy. Even now it’s still more cost effective to buy the clones, and they’ve expanded their sbc offering to include features not available on the original pi.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Though many of the alternatives have rather poor software and support, and as you can’t just load an iso meant for a raspi you have to do most stuff by yourself from scratch.
As an example, I have home assistant running on both a Raspi and an Orange Pi board. One of them was a simple iso flash and is still supported and updated, the other took few days of tinkering to sort out and the last time that board got a manufacturer Debian upgrade was in 2020.
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They have been around for a little while now. Had one in college ~4 years ago. Upstream kernel support was a little rough but spec wise they were impressive alternatives to the RPi 3B
lambda@programming.dev 8 months ago
I’ve got multiple Orange Pi’s. They are pretty nice.
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This is interesting. A few questions though.
How hackable is it? Are other distros or OSes devs going to be able to get their system ported to it? Seeing Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD, or OpenBSD on this would be pretty cool.
Armbian lists several BPi boards as supported. Has anyone run Armbian on the BPi stuff?
PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is any good?
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
It’s very much budget option.
PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Would you personally recommend it?
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I think I would rather spend a little more and get official hardware, with guaranteed ongoing support and no mystery blobs.
tomshardware.com/…/openwrt-aims-to-finialize-its-…
forum.openwrt.org/t/…/2
n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Maybe they’re not “mystery blobs,” but I think you still need binary blobs with MediaTek chips. I’d be happy to be proven wrong though!
Solemn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I work in industry with MediaTek chips. We basically have to reverse engineer them to get anything done, because they refuse to give us anything, and what they do give us doesn’t work.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Over three times the price isn’t a little more.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Not when you consider the price of replacing this box when it’s no longer supported.
And really, $69 is a small price to pay for a modern router with open firmware; something that you are unlikely to get anywhere else.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And now you know the fact value of your personal data.
jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I can’t seem to find where to buy the OpenWRT One or when it’s going to ship.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 8 months ago
openwrt.org/voting/2024-01-openwrt-one