I’ve touched on this in another post, but this group seems to be more active. Has anyone been able to reinstall Open WRT and then put Vera back on top of it?
Was there something you didn’t like about our OpenWRT install? We have had a few users report random wi-fi issues flakiness, and there are some high CPU issues with the 2.4 Linux kernel, but we’ve had trouble getting 2.6 to work with the broadcom. Did you get a better OpenWRT platform going?
I just have a couple issues that I was hoping a fresh install may solve.
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lack of space to install apps. Granted, I do not know much about OpenWRT and the JFFS, but I was hoping to allocate more space so I can install etherwake, ntp, and dyndns, and few other small apps. Right now I’m leaning towards installing a USB stick, but I don’t think it’s an ideal situation to have to reinstall and configure each app everytime the router reboots when what I need takes very little additional space.
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I cannot forward any of my ports for the life of me. I set the fire rules and they just don’t work. I tried to get support from you (Vera) and you said you would only support the Vera layer. Fair enough. So I’m left on my own to figure it out. I can’t even get a simple ssh port forward from the internet to my Vera. here is my situation.
SSH Success - LAN - Vera using .1 router address.
SSH Success - LAN - using my Comcast IP address from my LAN to the Vera
SSH Failure - Internet to the Vera using a Verizon AirCard (connection refused)
SSH Failure - Internet to Vera using AT&T 3G tether (connection refused)
I’m pretty positive my firewall rule is right. My question is how does the findvera.com service ssh in? I would like to try on the same port. I’ve tried 3451, referenced from the data provider plugin wiki, as a longshot and it didn’t work.
I also found this open ticket on the OpenWRT page concerning this router and the 2.4 kernel
https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2558
It says:
"Important notice: there is a long standing bug that makes it impossible to do port forwarding (NAT) with this router on 2.4 kernel, see #2558 (iptables rules doesnt work after some time) – OpenWrt. Otherwise the router works great, if you can live with the reduced functionality.
With a 2.6 kernel, wireless support is problematic. The supplied Broadcom wireless miniPCI card requires the open source b43 driver. As of 2008 July 5, that driver is not yet completely functional. It appears to work in STA mode (client mode).
If you replace the Broadcom wirelss miniPCI card with an Atheros card, you can run a 2.6 kernel, as long has it has SVN 9285. "
I’m being a little more agressive with my Vera and wanted to make it my primary router to reduce my total power footprint. Other than that, the Vera software works fine and I applaud you for having integrating it as well as you did.
Oh, concerning WiFi Flakiness, It seem to always have issues after a factory restore to get Internet access, seems after playing around with it after 2-3 reboots it’ll work fine and stay up reliability for me. Its just the initial NAT setup that causes me problems.
but as an FYI for your other users, I read that the internal antenna connection can come loose. shake your router to see if you hear if you have a loose connection.
So I backed up my entire OpenWRT flash and I’m thinking of reinstalling the 2.4 kernel. Will this mess up the Vera software?
As a follow-up Question, can installing dd-wrt mega build be an option? It seems to have everything I need baked right in.
We have a lot of customizations and libraries. Installing DD-wrt or Openwrt from scratch and then adding our software and all the dependencies you’ll have the same size.
I’ve described you already how can you install other software and add firewall rules in an other post.
YOu can try to activate Tech_support and send us an email with the code and I’ll add the firewall rules for you. Port 3451 it has other use, it’s not ssh.