Home Hub 6 Openwrt

Image which can be booted via tftp to simplify the switch from oem firmware to openwrt lede.

Home hub 6 openwrt. But installation is tricky. The bt home hub 3a is supported in chaos calmer stable release and in trunk. This is an advanced video for those whom feel adventurous and have a decent background and understanding of computers and system administration or. Flash openwrt lede to a bt homehub 5 with a chopstick.

This is necessary if you want to install the amazing openwrt aftermarket firmware to it openwrt was formerly known as lede t. For the moment until this wiki page is updated fully further information and installation instructions may be found here. This is a guide showing an easy new no solder method for connecting to the uart interface on a bt home hub 5 type a. Still in uart cfg 04 boot after flash openwrt ebilan co uk.

Searching for installation instructions bootlogs other info. Difficult to say but openwrt for the hub 5 is only for the bt homehub 5 0 type a. The home hub is also supplied to those bt customers who already have fibre to the premises which is better than g fast will ever be and can get speeds of up to 330mbit s today so i d hope the current router is man enough to handle that. On a thread entitled bt smart hub home hub 6 bug reporting improvements the suggestion to install openwrt.

So i ve recently been experimenting with running alternate firmware specifically tomato dd wrt openwrt on various spare routers i had kicking around the place it then occurred to me i have a spare plusnet hub one. With an unoffical firmware based on openwrt with a more up to date driver even so it s still short. Bt homehub stuck in cfg04 uart mode after installation. I am hoping there are some network gurus here i have a home hub 6 business as my main router 192 168 0 1 i have a home hub 5 with openwrt on it running openvpn 10 0 0 1 the hh5 can access the internet just fine through the vpn.

See link to device page below. Running openwrt on the plusnet hub one bt home hub 5a plusnet community a very busy forum thread discussing the whole process starting with a tutorial from a plusnet member.