Upgrade your OpenWRT firmware in-place, the easy way!

[@demanuDJ]

I'm using both OPNSense (as main router and FW) and OpenWRT as switches/access points and I'm using attended sysupgrade for some time. Great solution to upgrade your OpenWRT in quick and easy way.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

OPNSense and pFSense are great!

[@hakovatube]

Thank you for the great content, very helpful and very much appreciated!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure my friend.

[@tonygil8617]

Do you have any videos on configuring OpenWrt for home , I have a broadband router already what to use this second one for guests

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/paCtgX94ebxrp9ksi=Z9Ud38erN6v7Bb10 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqvQoGuIlst1fMksi=dt_iA-cQ2_bnZEnz should get you started. I hope they help.

[@alexardona897]

hello, may i ask what operating system you are using? i that linux? tnx

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It is, and in this case it's the Kubuntu 24.04 version (Ubuntu 24.04 with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.

[@vegaskidd555]

hi im new to openwrt. i want to upgrade to latest firmware.. do i download sysupgrade normal or ubi version like my first install

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Generally sysupgrade is fine. Before you do anything, just make a backup fo your current config. Then you can roll back if needed.

[@Mudflap1110]

Why not pfsense? Just curious.

[@demanuDJ]

pfSense/OPNSense requires x86 64 bit hardware, so you wont able it install it on all in one standard devices (99% are ARM devices). Also both of them are bad in being access points because poor wireless devices support on FreeBSD which is a base for them. Of course pfSense and OPNSense are great (as FW/router these are much more advanced than OpenWRT), I'm using it almost everywhere as main router/FW + openWRT as switch/AP devices.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

The reply is true, that OPNSense and pfSense aren't made for nonn x86 devices generally. Also they are both BSD based systems, so no wifi support for Wifi 6, or even AC wifi I think. So, I use OpenWRT across the board. You can, however, use OPNSense, or pfSense on your x86 based firewall, then setup VLANs and use OpenWRT for your wifi APs.

[@lezz27]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I am using Pfsense as my main router and my AP runs on Openwrt. The AP is connected to a POE switch with VLAN. Everything works except that sometimes the wifi enabled devices won't connect to the internet even though it has strong wifi signal; then all of a sudden everything works. I have Adguard which is managing some of the VLAN DNS and some VLAN use Cloudflare DNS server. I was running Openwrt on ER605v2 and everything works on that Multi-WAN router except that the due to low end cpu on it, I was not able to tune the bufferbloat on it using SQM. I do use inhouse VoIP service and have 9-10 VLANS for different use case. Hence, fine tuning the network is a priority for me. Tuning bufferbloat on Pfsense is a quite effective using CAKE. I am not sure if I should try to install Openwrt on x86 machine and see how bufferbloat results works using SQM. I am positive that Openwrt will also give me A+ score for bufferbloat since the CPU will be much stronger than what I had on ER605v2. I have never used Openwrt on x86 machines but have used it on different home rouiters and access points and I must admit that its clean and gets the job done. Do you guys think its worth a try to see how Openwrt would work on x86 machine with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz processor with 16gb of RAM? Also, one other reason why I want to try this is because there are few apps that I use that need port forwarding and no matter what I do on Pfsense, they never work but the moment I use them on Openwrt, it works without any headache. Lastly, thanks for the great video, Brian. I was waiting for a follow-up video on this for quite sometime. Cheers!

[@surgical_17]

Curious if this can all be done via the Terminal?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Indeed it can. Anything you can do in the web interface is first built for the terminal. You'd use 'opkg update' to update the package list, then 'opkg install attendedsysupgrade-common'. After that you'll have to find out the proper commands for the attendedsysupgrade to use.

[@SB-qm5wg]

Yes. That's how I do i t.

[@paulsander5433]

Seems like a good thing to do using a tool like Ansible, too. Does anyone know if opkg is integrated into Ansible's packaging modules?

[@sabbathViKing]

@@paulsander5433 it is. check for community.general.opkg module now I am thinking about the same as you. Any idea how to perform backup and transfer it out of router? ;)

[@Reality_Narratives]

Please do a video on Snipe-IT

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Let me see what I can come up with. I started one about a year ago, but it was a bit buggy, so I decided to hold off.

[@RodrigoPolo]

Excellent tutorial, out of curiosity, when a secondary router uses vlans, cannot access the internet, how can it be upgraded? i did it by adding a temporary interface with DHCP enabled using the first vlan, but I guess it should be another way.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I just had to provide it a gateway to use, and DNS entries. No issue after that.

[@RodrigoPolo]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I forgot about the DNS, it works, thank you.

[@jefferyholcombe5189]

Like your videos so much. The idea of the nook wallplates I liked so much I went and bought two of them. Problem I am having is setting up the vlans as I can't get the wan added to the br-lan changed so it is shown as a switch port in the section where you add all the ports physically so I can not see the wan port as software. Can you make a video of setting up the wall plate right from new setting up all the vlans? Nobody has it on KZbin how to set them up as access points from a main openwrt router with switch. I need the main openwrt router as it has a 4G 4x4 mimo LTE modem with unlimited data and works slamming 70ft in the air but makes it hard to just plug an 8 port switch and a couple of them wall plates because if you mess up you have no Internet. I just can't get past the nook wallplates having the wan port as software. If you could detail more on the setup of the wallplates that would be awesome!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It may be a difference in the device. Which devices are you using specifically?

[@lezz27]

Oh no...not sure what happened to my comment. :(