[Commotion-discuss] CW Firmware on a Ubiquiti Picostation M2HP

[Nicolas North]

Hi there!

Thank you so much for your reply.

This is an important problem as the picostations are great in terms of coverage / price ratio. I’m now looking at other ubiquiti devices but the antennas for the ubnt rocket cost more than the rockets themselves. I’m trying to figure out how much larger the range would be with rockets + omni antennas.

Could I ask you which devices you’ve switched to or are planning to switch to given the impossibility of using picostations with cw firmwares at the moment?

Do other cw-supported devices have the same reliability, quality and price as ubiquiti devices?

I have to cover all houses [meaning the inside of houses in practically every room with decent signal] inside a living complex 120 meters wide and 100 meters long with lots of exterior spaces. The APs would all be on rooftops no higher than two storeys above the ground. I’m thinking of sticking with 2.4GHz for now as it reaches better inside houses.

Thank you again and thanks to all who’d like to share some advice for this project! :)


Nicolas



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Date: 3 Apr 2016 at 19:59:34
To: Nicolas North <star at nikksno.io>
Subject:  RE: [Commotion-discuss] CW Firmware on a Ubiquiti Picostation M2HP  

We have a small mesh project we're working on here in Vermont, U.S.A.  We have found that we are unable to install Commotion on recent models of Ubiquiti Picostation. Commotion says others have found that Picostation version v5.6.x and above is incompatible with Commotion, but that probably it wouldn't load at all rather than not being configuarable as in our case. Anyway, we aren't going to buy anymore Picostaions. Maybe this relates to your problem.
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From: "Nicolas North" <star at nikksno.io>
Sent: Sunday, April 3, 2016 11:41am
To: commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Subject: [Commotion-discuss] CW Firmware on a Ubiquiti Picostation M2HP

Hi everybody!
 
I’m looking to start a mesh network here in Milano [Italia] where I live and I need some help :)
 
I have a ubiquiti picosta tion m2hp that I can’t get to work with the cw openwrt firmware.
 
I downloaded the factory image from the website and followed the guide but after I uploaded the new firmware from the airmax web interface and after the pico rebooted it only had the power and network lights on and seemed to create no network at all: it didn’t provide any dhcp so I tried to connect to it manually by setting ip address and netmask on my macbook and trying all kinds of stuff but I had no success.
 
I tried it the tftp way then but it failed with a 512 "firmware check failed" error code. So I tried flashing three different pure openwrt firmwares onto it but it kept failing with the same code.
 
I tried ddwrt out of curiosity and it works perfectly.
 
I was never able to get it back to airmax thought: tftp doesn’t fail but after it reboots it gets stuck in a 20 second bootloop and even after power cycling it it keeps restarting and never becomes reachable. Do you think I could try at least reverting it to airmax from the ddwrt web interface?
 
I have tried compiling openwrt from scratch specifically with the ath9k drivers but after three hours of compilation it still fails via tftp with the same error.
 
I’m using the bullet image as instructed.
 
The pico is brand new so I don’t want to open it and void the warranty.
 
What can I do to fix this?
 
Thank you very much in advance!
 
 
Nicolas
 
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