Xiaomi Access Points Running MESHdesk Firmware

• 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 21.02.1.
• 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.

• The MESHdesk firmware can be identified in two places
  • The Luci interface has a RADIUSdesk Logo.

• The terminal banner shows it.

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• You can get to the Access Point initally by connecting to its LAN port and go to http://192.168.1.1
• The default username and password is root and admin
• The next section will describe how to activate central control of this Access Point.

• 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)
• Once you made the changes click Save & Apply
• After this you can reboot the Access Point while ensuring its WAN is connected to a network with a working DHCPv4 setup.