First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released — The New OpenWrt One on sale now for $89 — Ultimate Gift for Right-To-Repair Enthusiasts

Fri Nov 29 18:49:07 UTC 2024

          FIRST ROUTER DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR OPENWRT RELEASED
                  The New OpenWrt One on sale now for $89
               Ultimate Gift for Right-To-Repair Enthusiasts

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/

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Today, we at SFC, along with our OpenWrt member project, announce the
production release of the OpenWrt One. This is the first wireless Internet
router designed and built with your software freedom and right to repair in
mind. The OpenWrt One will never be locked down and is forever unbrickable.
This device services your needs as its owner and user. Everyone deserves
control of their computing. The OpenWrt One takes a great first step toward
bringing software rights to your home: you can control your own network with
the software of your choice, and ensure your right to change, modify, and
repair it as you like.

The OpenWrt One demonstrates what's possible when hardware designers and
manufacturers prioritize your software right to repair; OpenWrt One
exuberantly follows these requirements of the copyleft licenses of Linux and
other GPL'd programs. This device provides the fully copyleft-compliant
source code release from the start. Device owners have all the rights as
intended on Day 1; device owners are encouraged to take full advantage of
these rights to improve and repair the software on their OpenWrt One.

Priced at US$89 for a complete OpenWrt One with case [1] (or US$68.42 for a
caseless One's logic board [2]), it's ready for a wide variety of use cases.
Manufactured in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One uses the
MediaTek MT7981B SoC, with MT7976C wifi, 1 GiB DDR4 RAM, 128 MiB SPI NAND +
4 MiB SPI NOR flash, two Ethernet ports (2.5 GbE and 1 GbE), a USB host
port, M.2 2042 for NVMe SSD or similar devices, and mikroBUS expansion
header. The OpenWrt offers both PoE (Power over Ethernet) via the 2.5 GbE
port , or direct power via the USB-C power port with 12V USB-PD. A
convenient USB serial interface is built into the other USB-C port: expert
users won't miss any boot messages!  This hacker-friendly device is
unbrickable, providing a switch to separately flash the NOR and NAND
portions of the flash memory.

This new product has completed full FCC compliance tests; it's confirmed
that OpenWrt met all of the FCC compliance requirements. Industry
“conventional wisdom” often argues that FCC requirements somehow conflict
with the software right to repair. SFC has long argued that's pure FUD. We
at SFC and OpenWrt have now proved copyleft compliance, the software right
to repair, and FCC requirements are all attainable in one product!

You can order an OpenWrt One now! Since today is the traditional day in the USA
when folks buy gifts for love ones, we urge you to invest in a wireless router
that can last! We do expect that for orders placed today, sellers will deliver
by December 22 in most countries.

Everyone can purchase a complete OpenWrt One with case [1] or just the board
[2] via the links below (and other sale outlets, too). Regardless of where
you buy from, for every purchase of a new OpenWrt One, a US$10 donation will
go to the OpenWrt earmarked fund at Software Freedom Conservancy. Your
purchase not only improves your software right to repair, but also helps
OpenWrt and SFC continue to improve the important software and software
freedom on which we all rely!

For more on the OpenWrt One, and the role it plays in promoting software
freedom, check out our blog post, “OpenWrt One: manufacturing software
freedom”, by Denver Gingerich that will be posted next week.  As you've
probably heard, we're in the middle of our annual fundraiser so check that
out too!  Donations are being matched now for a limited time! [3]

References:

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007795779282.html
[2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008143000598.html
[3] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/nov/26/2024-fundraiser/

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