After many hours i finally made it to my Mikrotik RB750 thanks to your tutorial. The hardest part was i used 19.07 soft and i dont work. Then i used 18.06 for initrams and then upgrade to 19.07
Congrats. I know it has been a huge effort installing OpenWRT on Mikrotik devices for the first time. I experienced the same when making this video. The the same time, thanks for your input, I believe it will help other viewers who is trying to install OpenWRT on the Mikrotik RB750.
Nice video! Thank you! I'm in progress of setting up a DIY WiFi Pineapple on a RB951G2HnD. Hoping to also add external antenna's aswell. Using a USB 5v to 12v converter, allows me to power the unit via it's DC jack, using a laptop or power bank. :)
Thank you for your video! It helped me a lot to install OpenWRT on my hAP ac² from the Linux machine. But there were some difficulties. RouterOS ver.7 and later 6.xx versions DO NOT ALLOW to boot other operating systems via TFTP. So, I finally managed to do it by downgrading to an earlier (factory) firmware version 🌞
Im sad to say that your video is already starting to go out of date 😅 The official snapshot releases ship with a much lighter version of OpenWRT. Where you need to flash it/do your first configuration in a ssh session. Might be a good idea to show off this style of installation or give a note about it so people dont get confused when they cant access the luci interface as its not there by default anymore. Thanks for the video! Its nice to get to see the steps laid out in video.
Hi, thanks for the comment. Actually there is a video in my OpenWRT tutorial playlist "Openwrt beginner guide" where I introduce the basic concepts such as how to find the firmware for each router, system setting, LuCI/SSH access, wireless configuration. This video is a device specific tutorial, I assume the viewer should at least have some basic concept already.
Hi, thanks for the video! I have a doubt Can I install OpenWrt with RouterOS 7.6? factory version is 7.3.1 so in theory it's not possible to downgrade to 6.x.x right?
Same as @kamis47 - I was flashing RB952Ui-5ac2nD (hAP ac lite) and it stuck on flashing upgrade image. It seems that you need to flash upgrade image not with same version. I tried with 19.07.4 on the beginning, then 19.07.8 on upgrade and it works.
This I had the exact problem. I don't know why either but I figured out a solution: Ignore it and log into your router you will see a message that it's in recovery mode. It will also say you can upgrade the firmware and that's the solution... Upload the upgrade firmware. (You will find it in the same place where you got the factory image, the name should be something like: "Sysupgrade image") Once upgraded it will be fully installed. Done :D - (P.S: Yes, I know your comment is 2 months old :)
hi sir. can u teach me about setup vlan in hap ac2 for load balance using mwan3. i need using 3isp.. im tried using your tutorial for load balance. but failed.
Hi, thanks for this tutorial. Some of the menu items are different from my Microtik (Mikrotik RB760iGS (hEX S)). I dont have switch menu. Any suggestion how to create VLANs when Switch is not present? I would like to use the fiber optic port to connect to the ISP but I need a VLAN 300 for that. Thanks
em you can enable the switch menu, also you dont need the switch menu, you can use a simple bridge, also you can create any vlan even wen the switch is not present lol. RouterOS is a beautifull piece of software, why would you replace it lol
I have explained all the steps in detail. You can watch the video, or read the official docs for to get the answer. Do not proceed until you all clear, as a mistake could brick the device and loose the license.
Hi, the hap ac3 is having more or less the same specs with the 8devices Habanero DVK and the DR4029 from Wallys. The OpenWRT peformance of this SoC is not really impressive (as I remember it is around 800Mbps without offloading).
Basically it is the same, just a different initramfs name. Still, boot the the initial ramdisk with TinyPXE, see how the router is doing and flash the sysupgrade file to permanently flash OpenWRT on NAND. However, the key/way to start netinstall for the RB2011 is different, you can check this at mikrotik website.
Thanks for the video, explained pretty well. I'm getting terrible performance for 2.4 ghz wifi with openwrt, does anyone have similar problem? Stock firmware with basic configuration performs way better.
Hi, the video is very helpful, thank you. I have a question: at the permanent flash step, after uploading sysupgrade file a metadata error is shown. "Image metadata not found Sysupgrade is not yet supported on unknown. Image check failed. The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform." I am sure I upload the correct image file. So I forced to flash with this image. But router is resarted and return back to RouterOS. How can I solve this issue? Router: mikrotik rb922uags-5hpacd
Hi, you can get the firmware from here: openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/mikrotik/mikrotik_rb922uags-5hpacd Please note that this router has 2 brach, the stable version and development snapshot. If you netboot the initramfs from stable version (openwrt-19.07.7-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux-initramfs.elf), you have to upload the stable sysupgrade file (openwrt-19.07.7-ar71xx-mikrotik-nand-large-ac-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin) in Luci.
Thnx for the link. But I had already downloaded and tested the stable version (not the snapshot) of the firmware from that link. I also tried ssh to router and sysupgrade with -n and -F options. It also didnt work, after reboot it goes back to routerOs, the last prompted message was image meta not found since after rebooting ssh exits.
I will leave this question to our developers who have been working hard for years to develop and maintain the OpenWRT git/firmware for Mikrotik and to the OpenWRT Mikrotik community. I surely know once you ask this in the forum, somebody will answer you :D
OpenWRT is one of the other most powerful OS in router world and also has capabilities far beyond the router world. I use both but i generally prefer OpenWRT. Configuring RouterOS can be very unintuitive and cumbersome. I think everyone should use the OS they prefer for his use case. ;)
Routeros is powerful, but overkill for most home networks. I went with openwrt for CAKE sqm - which is amazing and destroys any kind of qos possible in v6. I get sub-5ms bufferbloat at all times with 10x devices fully saturating my 100mbps plan. Once v7 with cake becomes stable in like 2023 I'll switch to routeros for everything.
Heres a good resource on reinstalling RouterOS with their tool called Netinstall alduras.com/wp/mikrotik-netinstall-failures-avoid/ Its only for windows, so if you use something like MacOS or Linux. A better step might be to save the already installed RouterOS to your pc before flashing OpenWRT. The steps are described here openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/common#saving_mikrotik_routeros
Yup, you got it. As far as I know, the this method applied to Mikrotik and some Qualcomm IPQ SoC via uBoot, such as the Habanero DVK, Wallys DR4029 running IPQ4029 SoC.
I tried my best with RouterOS to get the hAP Ac2 to get the VLAN working. I hate it, so much time wasted. Now wantEd to try OpenWRT, but I’m stuck at the TinyPXE giving me “no other dhcp discovered”. What should I do? I followed the video instructions as it is, but no luck 🙁
In my case I had problems with firewall on Windows machine. Despite allowing TinyPXE to listen on the network it wasn't recognized by the MT router. I had to disable the Windows firewall completely for the time of TinyPXE usage.
Sau khi cài OpenWRT lên Mikrotik rồi thì cách cấu hình mesh đều giống nhau hết, em có thể tham khảo video này để biết cách làm th-cam.com/video/cw8ykKgVKbM/w-d-xo.html
Hey, sorry for the late response. You can try this OpenWRT firmware for HAP AC2 (snapshot, LuCI is not pre-installed) - downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq40xx/mikrotik/
Configuring RouterOS can be very unintuitive and cumbersome. And i personally prefer to have a open and universally applicable system. And OpenWRT has capabilities that go way beyond that. For example every access point could have an audio interface to drive speakers in its room, and the Router could stream music perfectly synchronized to all of them.. And there so many more possibilities with OpenWRT. Who needs to spread raspberry pi and other mini pc's to all rooms when there are already access points with multicore arm socs hanging around? Why should all those powerful devices those days be limited to basic network and routing stuff if they could do almost everything other computers can?
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After many hours i finally made it to my Mikrotik RB750 thanks to your tutorial. The hardest part was i used 19.07 soft and i dont work. Then i used 18.06 for initrams and then upgrade to 19.07
Congrats. I know it has been a huge effort installing OpenWRT on Mikrotik devices for the first time. I experienced the same when making this video. The the same time, thanks for your input, I believe it will help other viewers who is trying to install OpenWRT on the Mikrotik RB750.
Nice video! Thank you! I'm in progress of setting up a DIY WiFi Pineapple on a RB951G2HnD. Hoping to also add external antenna's aswell. Using a USB 5v to 12v converter, allows me to power the unit via it's DC jack, using a laptop or power bank. :)
Thank you for the tutorial..the official guide on openWrt is correct but very confusing and general. You were straight forward :)
I couldn't do it without this tutorial. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Thank you for your video! It helped me a lot to install OpenWRT on my hAP ac² from the Linux machine. But there were some difficulties. RouterOS ver.7 and later 6.xx versions DO NOT ALLOW to boot other operating systems via TFTP. So, I finally managed to do it by downgrading to an earlier (factory) firmware version 🌞
Thanks for the comment. There videos with the RB750Gr3 and the RB2011 as well, feel free to check it out.
@@VanTechCorner Thanks. Think it wiil be good to watch all of your videos over time 👍
I think you just needed to change boot order in routerOS settings. By default NAND has higher priority over ethernet, but it could be reversed.
@@Zimtk3ks Will be very happy for you if you succeed on it.
Unico tutorial que funcionou,grato.
Im sad to say that your video is already starting to go out of date 😅
The official snapshot releases ship with a much lighter version of OpenWRT. Where you need to flash it/do your first configuration in a ssh session. Might be a good idea to show off this style of installation or give a note about it so people dont get confused when they cant access the luci interface as its not there by default anymore.
Thanks for the video! Its nice to get to see the steps laid out in video.
Hi, thanks for the comment. Actually there is a video in my OpenWRT tutorial playlist "Openwrt beginner guide" where I introduce the basic concepts such as how to find the firmware for each router, system setting, LuCI/SSH access, wireless configuration. This video is a device specific tutorial, I assume the viewer should at least have some basic concept already.
Hi, thanks for the video! I have a doubt Can I install OpenWrt with RouterOS 7.6? factory version is 7.3.1 so in theory it's not possible to downgrade to 6.x.x right?
Thank you!
Same as @kamis47 - I was flashing RB952Ui-5ac2nD (hAP ac lite) and it stuck on flashing upgrade image. It seems that you need to flash upgrade image not with same version. I tried with 19.07.4 on the beginning, then 19.07.8 on upgrade and it works.
When I try to change the cable from port 1 to port 2 it doesn´t finish flashing openwrt. I never see the message RELEASE received. Any solution?
This I had the exact problem. I don't know why either but I figured out a solution:
Ignore it and log into your router you will see a message that it's in recovery mode.
It will also say you can upgrade the firmware and that's the solution... Upload the upgrade firmware.
(You will find it in the same place where you got the factory image, the name should be something like:
"Sysupgrade image") Once upgraded it will be fully installed. Done :D
-
(P.S: Yes, I know your comment is 2 months old :)
hi sir. can u teach me about setup vlan in hap ac2 for load balance using mwan3. i need using 3isp.. im tried using your tutorial for load balance. but failed.
Hi, thanks for this tutorial. Some of the menu items are different from my Microtik (Mikrotik RB760iGS (hEX S)). I dont have switch menu. Any suggestion how to create VLANs when Switch is not present? I would like to use the fiber optic port to connect to the ISP but I need a VLAN 300 for that.
Thanks
hello, how did you get OpenWRT on rg760igs? I'm not getting. have some tutorial to indicate. Thank you very much.
em you can enable the switch menu, also you dont need the switch menu, you can use a simple bridge, also you can create any vlan even wen the switch is not present lol. RouterOS is a beautifull piece of software, why would you replace it lol
He bro it's possible to get openwrt openvpn&passwall on mikrotik 750gr3?
for install OPENWRT must be connect UART(serial port HAPac2) to PC or only Lan (port 1) to PC ?
I have explained all the steps in detail. You can watch the video, or read the official docs for to get the answer. Do not proceed until you all clear, as a mistake could brick the device and loose the license.
Can you still use the hotspot features of the MT porting openwrt?
Tengo una hap ac2 pero tus archivos no están e flasheado otras versiones snapshot pero ninguna me trae la opción services y la de vpn
have u ever try with hap ac3 bro? it will be nice
Hi, the hap ac3 is having more or less the same specs with the 8devices Habanero DVK and the DR4029 from Wallys. The OpenWRT peformance of this SoC is not really impressive (as I remember it is around 800Mbps without offloading).
Is it the same procedure for RB2011UiAS-2HnD? I have one sitting in the corner, thinking to flash it with OpenWrt
Basically it is the same, just a different initramfs name. Still, boot the the initial ramdisk with TinyPXE, see how the router is doing and flash the sysupgrade file to permanently flash OpenWRT on NAND. However, the key/way to start netinstall for the RB2011 is different, you can check this at mikrotik website.
Hey, if you get the router working, do share it in FB group. I plan to get one soon!
@@VanTechCorner Sure, will do
Chức năng dcom có còn hiệu lực ko bạn?
Going from buggy ROuterOS to even more buggy OpenWRT :D
Lol, actually RouterOS 6.49.2 is working fine for me. I just got the RB750gr3 and hopefully it will work fine with OpenWRT.
Up sang này rồi cổng usb có còn tính năng kết nối modem 3g 4g ko bạn ơi? Đang muốn up mà sợ mất tính năng này😄
OpenWRT mặc định sẽ không nhận USB 4G/3G hoặc USB Tethering, bạn sẽ phải cài driver/package và cấu hình mới dùng được.
@@VanTechCorner bạn làm 1 clip hd luôn cái này thì tốt quá
does it have usb support?
wanted to use as a print server
Thanks for the video, explained pretty well. I'm getting terrible performance for 2.4 ghz wifi with openwrt, does anyone have similar problem? Stock firmware with basic configuration performs way better.
Yes, OpenWRT performance in this router is not as good as RouterOS. I have a video comparision for that.
Hi, the video is very helpful, thank you.
I have a question: at the permanent flash step, after uploading sysupgrade file a metadata error is shown. "Image metadata not found Sysupgrade is not yet supported on unknown. Image check failed.
The uploaded image file does not contain a supported format. Make sure that you choose the generic image format for your platform." I am sure I upload the correct image file. So I forced to flash with this image. But router is resarted and return back to RouterOS. How can I solve this issue? Router: mikrotik rb922uags-5hpacd
Hi, you can get the firmware from here:
openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/mikrotik/mikrotik_rb922uags-5hpacd
Please note that this router has 2 brach, the stable version and development snapshot. If you netboot the initramfs from stable version (openwrt-19.07.7-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux-initramfs.elf), you have to upload the stable sysupgrade file (openwrt-19.07.7-ar71xx-mikrotik-nand-large-ac-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin) in Luci.
Thnx for the link. But I had already downloaded and tested the stable version (not the snapshot) of the firmware from that link. I also tried ssh to router and sysupgrade with -n and -F options. It also didnt work, after reboot it goes back to routerOs, the last prompted message was image meta not found since after rebooting ssh exits.
Did you try to upload the sysupgrade file in Luci
@@VanTechCorner yes the mentioned metadata error is received just after uploading the sysupgrade file in Luci
How about netboot the snapshot version? With snapshot, you need to setup WAN interface to install LuCI (it was not pre-installed).
Is there anyway to dual boot RouterOS and OpenWRT?
From what I know - it is not possible.
Dude, RouterOS is one of the most powerful OS in router world without no doubt. Why are you doing this then? :-/
I will leave this question to our developers who have been working hard for years to develop and maintain the OpenWRT git/firmware for Mikrotik and to the OpenWRT Mikrotik community. I surely know once you ask this in the forum, somebody will answer you :D
OpenWRT is one of the other most powerful OS in router world and also has capabilities far beyond the router world.
I use both but i generally prefer OpenWRT. Configuring RouterOS can be very unintuitive and cumbersome.
I think everyone should use the OS they prefer for his use case. ;)
Unfortunately I gave up on RouterOS' traffic shaping. It doesn't flawlessly work specially on Hex compared to shaping in OpenWrt.
Routeros is powerful, but overkill for most home networks. I went with openwrt for CAKE sqm - which is amazing and destroys any kind of qos possible in v6. I get sub-5ms bufferbloat at all times with 10x devices fully saturating my 100mbps plan.
Once v7 with cake becomes stable in like 2023 I'll switch to routeros for everything.
Please make a video on Extroot configuration. Thank you !
Can I upload a NanoStation M2 software
to Mikrotik router board 2011?
Hi, it will not work since those are 2 different device.
mas malakas po ba ito kesa RB750gr3 ???
- Install OpenWRT on RB750Gr3 th-cam.com/video/2k1uji4el7c/w-d-xo.html
- RB750Gr3 OpenWRT throughput & VPN test - th-cam.com/video/bllvDWEKgNA/w-d-xo.html
good video bro!
could you teach how to reverse this method so that we can use RouterOS?
Heres a good resource on reinstalling RouterOS with their tool called Netinstall alduras.com/wp/mikrotik-netinstall-failures-avoid/
Its only for windows, so if you use something like MacOS or Linux. A better step might be to save the already installed RouterOS to your pc before flashing OpenWRT. The steps are described here openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/common#saving_mikrotik_routeros
Why you install 2 Times the openwrt , have que do that for all other brands
Each devices series/ model has a specific way to install the firmware. You can check out the document in the video description to understand more.
You make do flash two times because the openWRT make one time not consistent you will do make two times 😉👌
@@VanTechCorner ok i see, the 1* goes to ram and the 2* is for the flash to BE permenent
Yup, you got it. As far as I know, the this method applied to Mikrotik and some Qualcomm IPQ SoC via uBoot, such as the Habanero DVK, Wallys DR4029 running IPQ4029 SoC.
@@AI-EXREYFOX exactly 😉
this dual or single boot os..?
Single boot
I tried my best with RouterOS to get the hAP Ac2 to get the VLAN working. I hate it, so much time wasted.
Now wantEd to try OpenWRT, but I’m stuck at the TinyPXE giving me “no other dhcp discovered”. What should I do? I followed the video instructions as it is, but no luck 🙁
In my case I had problems with firewall on Windows machine. Despite allowing TinyPXE to listen on the network it wasn't recognized by the MT router. I had to disable the Windows firewall completely for the time of TinyPXE usage.
whats so dificult about geting a vlan to work? lol
Bạn có thể làm 1 video hướng dẫn tự tạo file open vpn với router mikrotik đã openwrt ko ?
Bạn có thể tìm thấy video trong playlist này, có cả OpenVPN và Wireguard th-cam.com/play/PL58__w3t_eTbcBQ9oJ8jXCxPtBiac59vC.html
Anh ơi! Anh có thể làm hướng dẫn mesh wifi của con hap ac2 này với wifi của open-wrt đươc không ạ! Nếu mesh chung được thì tốt quá, cám ơn anh
Sau khi cài OpenWRT lên Mikrotik rồi thì cách cấu hình mesh đều giống nhau hết, em có thể tham khảo video này để biết cách làm th-cam.com/video/cw8ykKgVKbM/w-d-xo.html
Hello i have a problem with instaling netboot. Can i write to you message?
Hi, you can describe the problem here or post it on the FB group.
Hi Friend, Please make a video on Geo-Ip Blocking with OpenWrt. Thanks :)
Can run load balance with mwan3 bro?
Surely it can do. All devices running OpenWRT can run mwan3, and you can find the tutorial on my channel!
can you make one for ax3?
Hi, sorry I can’t make one since:
- I don’t have the device
- I am not really sure whether the device is fully supported by OpenWrt or not
Unable to access the firmware webpage
Hey, sorry for the late response. You can try this OpenWRT firmware for HAP AC2 (snapshot, LuCI is not pre-installed) - downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/ipq40xx/mikrotik/
Hi its working with rbm33g?
Yes it is. However, you will need to get the firmware from here openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/mikrotik/mikrotik_rbm33g
En iame tus archivos necesito la opción services y vpn
Enviame los archivos que tienes para flashear
Envia los archivos para flashear
Envia los archivos amigo para instalar
thank you.plz translete the video to english
Hi, the video language is English.
@@VanTechCorner translete to english iam translete to arbice
You can select "Auto translate to Arabic" for the time being. I will try to make a manual subtitle in English soon.
@@VanTechCorner Thank you very much for your response, I hope you will publish more videos
why? router OS is much better
Envia los archivos denuevo
OpenWRT firmware 502 502！
Why would you want to do this ??
why install openwrt on mikrotik router 🤣
Is there any point to choose OpenWRT over Router OS? 😂😂 Seriously ......!
To instal netdata, maybe :D
Configuring RouterOS can be very unintuitive and cumbersome. And i personally prefer to have a open and universally applicable system. And OpenWRT has capabilities that go way beyond that. For example every access point could have an audio interface to drive speakers in its room, and the Router could stream music perfectly synchronized to all of them.. And there so many more possibilities with OpenWRT. Who needs to spread raspberry pi and other mini pc's to all rooms when there are already access points with multicore arm socs hanging around? Why should all those powerful devices those days be limited to basic network and routing stuff if they could do almost everything other computers can?
802.11r support
Proxy NDP for IPv6 + Wireguard
Hi, the mikrotik has rom 16 MB.
How much space does take for the firmware ?
Install openwrt xioami mi 4a gigabit
Hey, there is a tutorial for install X-WRT on the Xiaomi Mi 3 router with Serial port. You can try if you have the USB TTL adapter.