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.

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      no mystery blobs.

      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!

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        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.

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        Not when I consider the price of replacing this box when it’s no longer supported.

        And even ignoring the longevity issue, $69 is a small premium for superior specs and open firmware, which I am unlikely to get anywhere else.

        I find that spending a bit more for tools that work much better and last much longer is nearly always the right choice. Better functionality, less waste, less hassle, and usually less money in the long run.

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      I can’t seem to find where to buy the OpenWRT One or when it’s going to ship.

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    and three Gigabit Ethernet ports (in addition to an RJ45 input).

    Wut 🤣

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      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.

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        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 newest Debian iso for it was uploaded in 2020.

        But if you know what you are doing, you can get great hardware for really cheap.

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      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

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    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?

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      I have, but it was one of the very old bananas. Should dig out out sometime.