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Xiaomi Access Points Running MESHdesk Firmware
Introduction
- As of October 2021 we have MESHdesk firmware available for the following Xiaomi Access Points
- 4A Gigabit Edition
- 4A 100M Edition
- 4C
- The firmware is based on OpenWrt 21.02.0.
- Instructions on how to flash the firmware onto the devices has their own dedicated Wiki page.
- This page will just give an overview on how easy it is to use the firmware.
Identifying the Firmware
- The MESHdesk firmware can be identified in two places
- The Luci interface has a RADIUSdesk Logo.
- The terminal banner shows it.
#Banner comes here
Activating Central Management
- The firmware by default is just running standard OpenWrt.
- It does however feature a Luci add-on which allows you to put the firmware under the management of a MESHdesk server.
- For this you only need to know the following three things
- Protocol that the server uses. Choose between HTTP or HTTPS. If you don not know, use HTTP.
- The FQDN of the server. If the MESHdesk server can only be reached using an IP Address, supply the following dummy value: cloudz.radiusdeskz.comz.
- The IPv4 address of the server. This will be used as a fallback if the FQDN can not resolve.
- See the following screenshot.
- As you can see our MESHdesk server is on a private network and has an IP Address of 192.168.8.220. (This is running on a Raspberry Pi)