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Ubiquiti UniFi AP

Hardware

Architecture: MIPS
Vendor: Atheros
Bootloader: U-boot
System-On-Chip: Atheros (AR7240)
CPU Speed: 400 Mhz
Flash-Chip: MX25L6405D
Flash size: 8 MiB
RAM: 64 MiB DDR
Wireless: AR9287
Switch: none
Ethernet ports: 1x Gigabit, POE capable
USB: No 1)
Serial: Yes, settings
JTAG: Yes

Hardware Photo


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Status

Since r23904 this device is supported in trunk and in future stable release.
At the moment it isn't part of any stable release!

Installing a new Firmware Image

  1. Login inside the AP with ssh.
  2. Find the image like "openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-unifi-*-factory.bin" on openwrt binary repository and download inside /tmp.
  3. Use the ubiquity fwupgrade utils to reflash it: 
    fwupdate.real -m openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-unifi-*-factory.bin -d

fwupdate.real can complain about the version of the firmware image, because it is built with prefix "XM" instead of the "BZ" of the unifi image. To change you will have to download the OpenWRT Image builder, patch the Makefile at target/linux/ar71xx/image (replace XM with BZ around line 844: 

$(eval $(call SingleProfile,UBNTXM,$(fs_64k),UBNTUNIFI,ubnt-unifi,UBNT-UF,ttyS0,115200,XM,BZ,ar7240))
make image PROFILE=UBNTUNIFI
Or just replace characters 4-6 in the firmware image file

Upgrading OpenWRT

If you have already installed OpenWrt and like to reflash for e.g. upgrading to a new OpenWrt version you can upgrade using the sysupgrade command line tool. It is important that you put the firmware image into the ramdisk (/tmp) before you start flashing.

LuCI Web Upgrade Process
Terminal Upgrade Process
  • Login as root via SSH on your access point ip
  • Use the following commands to upgrade: 
    cd /tmp/
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/.../openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-unifi-*-sysupgrade.bin
sysupgrade -i /tmp/openwrt-ar71xx-ubnt-unifi-*-sysupgrade.bin

Serial

A male-strip is on board to connect your TTL capable serial converter. Use the following settings: 115200 8N1.


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JTAG

How to connect to JTAG interface, and how to reflash the device with JTAG tools

See port.jtag for more JTAG details.

Specific Configuration

The UniFi ap has 2 leds, the orange one can be configured adding something like: 

config 'led'
	option 'name' 'lan'
	option 'sysfs' 'ubnt:orange:dome'
	option 'trigger' 'netdev'
	option 'dev' 'br-lan'
	option 'mode' 'tx rx'
at the end of /etc/config/system

Also its possible to change the led status manually.

  1. static, use 1 for on, 0 for off: 
    echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:orange\:dome/brightness
echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:green\:dome/brightness
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:green\:dome/brightness
echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:orange\:dome/brightness
  2. blinking
    1. blinking on, interval 1000ms, orange led: 
      echo timer > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:orange\:dome/trigger
echo 1000 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:orange\:dome/delay_on
echo 1000 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:orange\:dome/delay_off
    2. blinking off: 
      echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/ubnt\:orange\:dome/delay_off
1) but hackable

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toh/ubiquiti/unifi.txt · Last modified: 2013/03/15 12:08 by phuybre

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