Some more details
Some more details
Posted Nov 3, 2016 14:24 UTC (Thu) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354)Parent article: The Turris Omnia router: help for the IoT mess?
Here are a few more details that didn't seem relevant for the original article but that were relevant on a more personal level.
I had to pay a 50$CAD customs fee when I received the device, which brought the price up to around 350$, since I got the more expensive version with 2GB of RAM.
Also, my first attempt at configuring the device led to a complete crash with KeyError('ppp_ipv6',) due to a bug in the install wizard. The workaround was simply to connect to a DHCP network and let the device update itself, fixing the bug.
Unfortunately, the DHCP connection seems to have timed out as well, and there was no clear indication of what to do when the Checking internet connectivity. One moment, please... message would just get stuck there forever. I ended up reseting the machine and re-running the install wizard.
The install wizard is nice, but it forces you to setup encryption over the wifi links. What if you want an open access point? No luck there, that's not allowed at all, unless you go in the "advanced" administration in the classic LuCI interface of OpenWRT of course.
Like many devices, it doesn't show my city (Montreal) in the lists of timezones, and I am forced to chose the next competing city instead (Toronto, usually).
Finally, the errata should mention the problem with the antennas: it is really important people don't go around fixing the problem themselves because they can easily de-solder the small board that holds the antenna connector. I am afraid I did so myself: I knew I had to screw the antennas in by hand, but I didn't know how fragile the board was. I read the errata, but it didn't mention how to fix it.