Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [OpenWrt-Devel] Has OpenWrt suport for Powerline devices

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [OpenWrt-Devel] Has OpenWrt suport for Powerline devices

[Dave Taht]

Been looking for a powerline device worth fixing.

Alberto Bursi <bobafetthotmail@gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/08/19 02:08, Joan Moreau via openwrt-devel wrote:
>
>> The Powerline system needs a "Lan name" in order to synchronize teh 
> devices.
>
>>How this is translated in OpenWrt ?
>
>
> RE450 is not a powerline. Only supported device is
>
> *https://openwrt.org/toh/hwdata/tp-link/tp-link_tl-wpa8630*
>
> and it communicates to the QCA7500 powerline chip with
>
> plctool from open-plc-utils package, see the docs for that
>
> https://github.com/qca/open-plc-utils/blob/master/plc/plctool.1
>
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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] [OpenWrt-Devel] Has OpenWrt suport for Powerline devices

[Dave Taht]

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've a device with PowerLine. It's the devolo dLAN pro 500 wireless
> plus.
>
> It has an ath9k compatible WiFi (2.4GHz + 5GHz), and a free
> software bootloader, which is an old vendor fork of u-boot.
>
> The PowerLine part doesn't work out of the box and require a nonfree,
> non-redistributable firmware to work, however there is some
> documentation on it on the wiki[1].
>
> A really good way to fix that, and integrate everything would be to
> have people working on free software replacements for such nonfree
> firmwares, however I've no idea if anyone has started working on that
> yet.
>
> There is also a tag called 'plc' (Power line communication[3]) on the
> wiki for device with PowerLine. 
>
> References:
> -----------
> [1]https://openwrt.org/toh/devolo/devolo_dlan_pro_wireless_500_plus
> [2]https://openwrt.org/tag/plc?do=showtag&tag=plc
> [3]Note that the PLC acronym is also commonly used for "Programmable
>    logic controller" which has nothing to do at all with PowerLine.
>
> Denis.
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