[Commotion-dev] What would you do with the USB port on your Commotion access point?

[Seamus Tuohy]

The use cases I have for a router with a usb port are:
File Server (my github account has a basic luci implementation of a
file-server)
I keep meaning to implement a very tiny bbs server to put on a router
and lastly, a set of various usb sensors that can be connected to a
simple sensor-socket library would be awesome. I can only imagine what
we could accomplish by crating a literal plug-and-sense library for any
sensor to start propagating its data immediately.

s2e


I have been having a hellish time getting the usb on Buffalo's to work
with the PR3 release of commotion. This gives me hope.



On 01/22/2013 04:15 PM, Ben West wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> For the past few months, I've been using a heavily modified derivative of
> Commotion-OpenWRT on Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH units which I use as gateway
> routers in WasabiNet.  These units happen to have a USB port, which works
> just fine and dandy under OpenWRT, both for USB peripherals and mounting
> USB disks (presumably both solid state or HD).
> 
> I'm using these USB ports to monitor APC battery back-up supplies on the
> gateway routers, but that's pretty boring.  I've tried asking a couple
> times at the hacker space here in St. Louis what neat uses folks may have
> for a USB port on their Internet router, e.g. file server, or miscellaneos
> remote control, but the interest there hasn't been strong.
> 
> The Buffalo routers are neat, but even neater looks to be this 40$US unit,
> a TP-Link TL-MR3020 :
> http://www.microcenter.com/product/379216/Portable_3G-375G_Wireless-N_Router
> 
> I do believe Musti was showing off something similar to this at the IS4CWN
> last year.  Don't let the '3G connectivity' nonsense distract you; this is
> a cute little 802.11n ath9k-based radio with a USB port, and it looks like
> it will run OpenWRT with some encouragement.  Furthermore, a 2nd USB port
> can be had with some soldering and elbow grease.
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020
> 
> Likewise, the TL-WR703N is an equivalent unit:
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n
> 
> What could this USB port do for you?
> 
> - Filesystem for squid proxy? (Probably not very practical)
> - 3G/4G modem for Internet gateway?
> - USB sound adapter for streaming MP3 applications?
> - Control this desktop rocket launcher
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8a0f/ ?
> 
> 
> 
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