Nodes

Quick background -- I'm trying to set up a station, with the initial design goal of local access and portable operation with the option to expand to a node with some good LOS back to the LA basin from Verdugo or Wilson.

I've set up an hAP ac Lite for local access and bridging to my local network. That works great and I can connect up a second mikrotik device over the passive PoE passthrough for the "real" mesh link.

I have a Litebeam M5 that is running 3.22.12.0.  I wanted to get this node updated to the newer firmware to match my other Mikrotik nodes.  I do have the node on a smart switch that allows it to get Internet access (using vlans).  I have tried several ways to update the node:

I am here at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 22x).  I AREDN has a booth here.  This prompted me to check out the nodes around my location, and possibly put one up.   I'm looking at the hardware list and saw some of the gl.inet routers on there, also some microtik devices.   However one row away from the AREDN booth was the Software Conservancy, and they had on display the Openwrt One router.  I got into reading about the nodes and what AREDN uses and it appears a lot of the hardware is repurposed that uses openwrt.   Are there plans to support this router?  Right now it looks like th

I'm having a hard time finding the RBLHGG-5acD-XL while looking around the usual US-based Mikrotik resellers. It's sold out most places and where it is available it's only available as a 4-pack. The non-XL variant is discontinued. I'm wondering if Mikrotik's 802.11ac gear is going end-of-manufacture in favor of their newer 802.11ax offerings. Has anyone seen these for sale (and in stock) in single-unit quantities?
Thanks!

My friend asked me to flash two Mikrotik nodes he purchased. After I set things up to flash, I looked carefully at the name plates and realized he did not order the hAP ac3 or the QRT 5 as he desired. Will either of these devices flash the currently listed ac3 and QRT5 builds??

Thanks,
Walter, kd7dny
 

Hello everyone,

I flashed the Ubiquiti LiteBeam M5 (lbe-m5-23) device with 3.25.5.1 XW. Then I saw the firstboot screen (192.168.1.1). After entering the information and clicking “save and reboot,” I cannot proceed to the dashboard screen. No matter how much I try, the device won't switch to the 10.x.x.x IP address.
 

Has anyone else had experience with this device or a similar experience with a different device?

Best regards.

Just bought two Mikrotik-952ui-5ac2nd routers from Amazon.  Neither responded to the Tiny PXE server.  The two units I purchase last year, program without a problem using the same equipment and process. Tried two different computers and switches without success.

I was doing an initial install on a new AR300M16 today.  It appears there may be a new/different built-in firmware than what is described in the main AREDN Install Docs.

The node isn't resetting nor restarting.

This is causing horrible Babel metrics (4097) and OLSR route flapping.

Syslog reports as attached (also, support file is attached)

This has been happening for a while and the node has been pretty much up to date with nightlies. The attached files represent Nightly 20250713-9206ddc7.

Not sure if this should end up on Github as this appears to be a one off.