Banana Pi's $31 BPI-WiFi 6 router runs a fork of OpenWrt - Liliputing
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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.
I think I would rather spend a little more and get official hardware, with guaranteed ongoing support and no mystery blobs.
https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/routers/openwrt-aims-to-finialize-its-dollar100-openwrt-one-open-source-router-design-and-specification
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-one-celebrating-20-years-of-openwrt/183684/
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!
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.
Over three times the price isn't a little more.
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.
And now you know the fact value of your personal data.
I can’t seem to find where to buy the OpenWRT One or when it’s going to ship.
https://openwrt.org/voting/2024-01-openwrt-one
Already found that. Still can’t buy it, still not shipping. 😂
They outlined processes of what happens next since vote was approved on 1-17-2024. According to this, I dont expect anything until end of year or next year before product is ready to be sold
Wut 🤣
They probably meant WAN port.
Well there's a SoC maker I haven't heard of before!
Sounds more like the name of a car engine or something lmao
The all new Tremec Triductor TR6560
With 65 gears including overdrive, you'll never run out of gears again
Strongbad approved chipset.
Runs a bit hot though.
Are you really overclocking if there is no burninating happening?
My 3080 Ti could definitely burninate some villagers if harnessed correctly.
Hopefully it doesn't burninate.
...When tf did Banana Pi come out? I have a whole new option for SBCs now?? Dope.
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.
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.
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
I've got multiple Orange Pi's. They are pretty nice.
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?
I have, but it was one of the very old bananas. Should dig out out sometime.
It is any good?
It's very much budget option.
Would you personally recommend it?
I didn't use or have one, just sharing because I found this interesting and maybe others already would have something to say about the spec.
Tbh looks interesting, I will check more info online, thx for the post mate 👍👍