Posts made by DocHardinger

@crispyoz especially the omega packages/kernel stuff and the use of the onion firmware builder would be great. Im not so deep into openwrt firmware building and the onion builder is easy to use...

Hi, how difficult would it be to build OpenWrt 24.10 for the Omega2S? We are currently using 23.05.3. However, to comply with the CRA (Cyber Resilience Act) in Europe, we need to ensure we are using the latest OpenWrt firmware for security reasons. The Onion packages and p44-ledchain packages are particularly important. I think Python packages and some other standard packages should not be a problem, but Omega-specific patches or kernel modules could become complicated.

Also, will it be possible to use the Onion firmware builder for 24.10 and coming OpenWrt versions in the future?

Thx in advance

@Lazar-Demin yes. Ok then we will build an ethernet adapter because omega is already fixed on our boards but ethernet pins are accessible.

Yet we dont have the ethernet port connected and also cant use the ethernet eval boards. Is it possible to flash it with uart connection and transfer uboot image over wifi?

@crispyoz
Oh, okay — so you really did physically fall into a hole and got hurt? Luckily, you managed to get out again!
Yes issue is still there but we ignoring it for now and see if later updates will solve it. Most of the time we only need connection to an mobile phone and that is no problem. And for the other issue were continously pinging the AP to keep the connection as a workaround.

@crispyoz ok, i discovered another strange behavior. When connecting to an ShellyBluetooth Dongle AP the omega keeps disconnecting/connecting. I need to run a script which continuesly ping the AP to keep the connection. With other hardware the connection to the shelly is no problem. So it looks like the omega is doing something different.

@crispyoz any news?

@crispyoz Yes its still there but its for mips and not mipsel, and for mipsel its not there ... damn even the ipk i cant find anywhere

@crispyoz i found out this: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/faillogs-23.05/mipsel_24kc/packages/python-bcrypt/ there seems to be some error when compiling the package..Looks like they updated the repo 2 days ago but compiling bcrypt wasnt successful and so the package is missing...did i get this right?

but what can i do now?

Yes but days before building was successful, so something has changed. Maybe the repo from openwrt then...ich will check this

if you look here: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.3/packages/mipsel_24kc/packages/ there is the paramiko package...

Ahh now i see its python3-bcrypt which is missing...thats what you mean...but why did it worked a few days ago, i´ve changed nothing inside the build environment.

When i try to install it with pip the omega reboots when trying to install bcrypt...

@crispyoz For now i will ignore this behavior because our customers only use mobile phone to interact with the omega, and this works so far. Anyway not so good to not know whats going on there...

@Lazar-Demin has something changed in image builder? Now i get this error:

* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency python3-bcrypt for python3-paramiko
* pkg_hash_check_unresolved: cannot find dependency python3-cryptography for python3-paramiko
* pkg_hash_fetch_best_installation_candidate: Packages for python3-paramiko found, but incompatible with the architectures configured
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package python3-paramiko.

@crispyoz ok now tested with an old surface book 2, this one keeps the connection. My gaming pc and a new Dell Precision Laptop still keeps disconnecting.

Yes i already thought about this but makes no difference

@crispyoz i tested on two omega2pro and an omega2s+ (running 23.05.3) on our custom pcb. Both disconnects on laptop and pc. I will now get another old pc and check again with this one.

Tested it and keeps disconnecting. And i used the same power supply when running 22.03. and this keeps stable. Hmhm will, just to be sure, test again with 22.03. on different omegas. But when this is 23.05. with old mt76 driver and it disconnects it cant be the driver, right?

@crispyoz said in 23.05.3 iwinfo scan disconnects AP:

@DocHardinger That was OpenWrt 23.05 with the OpenWrt 22 MT76 driver code merged in. I tested on my Windows 11 machine, ran 6 or 7 scans and it never disconnected. May I suggest, if you have not already, power your Omega2 using a USB power adapter. Wifi scanning typically shows a spike in current, so I wonder if that's the issue.

Of cause i used an usb power adapter, but thats a good point i didnt checked with another one. Or better i will use my laboratory power supply. We got this problem before but with also modem and other stuff connected and this was a bad power adapter, but with modem its a lot of more current needed.

Anyway i will test it.

@crispyoz yes tested it, keeps disconnecting

@crispyoz said in 23.05.3 iwinfo scan disconnects AP:

My guess is that windows is less tolerant of timeouts or lost packets which occur when you perform the scan.

Yeah it seems so, but why is the old driver in 22.03. not disconnecting. If its just windows then disconnecting should also happen with 22.03. Or maybe the new driver spend more time in scanning and so needs more time for an ack to send back and windows doesnt like that...

@crispyoz i managed to install the new version but same error and am i right that there is no dhcp service like dnsmasq running? Anyway i switched to static adress on my pc and still keeps disconnecting when running iwinfo radio0 scan. Mobile phone stays connected.