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Hardwares
Introduction
- MESHdesk and APdesk allows you to centrally define hardware that are select-able when you add a device to either a Mesh or AP Profile.
- The Hardware applet include the specifying of:
- WAN interface
- LAN interface
- Radio function and specifications like transmit power.
- Up to three radios can be declared.
- Whether the hardware can can be selected in MESHdesk and / or APdesk.
- Include a photo of the hardware.
Add New Hardware
- Before you can attach a device to a Mesh network or AP Profile, you need to have a MATCHING DEFINITION for the hardware in the Hardware applet.
- We use convention of Name = Vendor + Model
- Firmware ID needs to match the value in the MESHdesk firmware (inside /etc/config/meshdesk file)
- WAN Port also is unique to the hardware used.
- LAN Port is optional and might not be available for hardware with a single Ethernet port.
- There is a dedicated page where currently supported hardware and their values are listed.
- This is a growing last and if your hardware can run OpenWRT we should be able to add support for it.
- There is three additional options
- Make available to MESHdesk.
- Make available to APdesk.
- Make available to Sub Providers.
- After you added the new device you need to optionally specify the radio specifications. (Some devices might not have any radios - we can still control them under APdesk)