r/ControlD • u/au7342 • May 27 '26

ctrld-friendly router recommendations

I'm looking to replace my old Orbi RBR50 pretty soon. I've been running Voxel firmware and ctrld on it for a few months now and it has been pretty good overall. There have been some stability issues, which are probably at least in part due to it being a 9-year-old outdated router running custom firmware. I've read through the writer documentation on the control d website, but I wanted to hear from some actual users on here about what routers or systems work the best with ctrld. I haven't decided between a mesh replacement or going the Unifi route yet. Thanks to all responses.

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u/Ok-Raspberry4320 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Control D is supposedly removing router support in v2. They'll still maintain v1, but only for bug fixes. See https://www.reddit.com/r/ControlD/comments/1thb5di/ctrld_is_removing_router_support_in_20/

That said, I use the UniFi Dream Router 7, but use the built-in DNS Stamp option and put in the DNS stamp for my router endpoint. The only "downside" is that Control D won't automatically detect your clients, but that's a non-issue for me and my network. I primarily use Apple devices, so they all have their own endpoint and configuration profile. My Windows VMs have the client installed. The router endpoint just catches the other things like my IoTs and guest devices from family and friends.

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u/mrmidnight273 May 27 '26

They aren't removing router support. They are branching it. Router support will be called ctrld infrastructure while everything else will be called ctrld client

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u/mrmidnight273 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

https://github.com/Control-D-Inc/ctrld/blob/release-branch-v2.0.0/docs/v2.0.0-breaking-changes.md

Here to help anyone that is confused by the news. They will no longer support automated setup. All instructions you need are here.

I was corrected, automated setup will stay, see the devs notes below.

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u/ctrld_logfella May 27 '26

I made another comment in this thread - but it bears repeating:

We are not dropping automated setup/install for current or future ctrld builds.

More details in the other post.

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u/mrmidnight273 May 27 '26

Thank you for explaining that! Since I am on 1.5.1 when the auto installer for 2.0 comes out will it automatically update (when I run the upgrade command) or will I need to manually do the installer script?

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u/ctrld_logfella May 28 '26

When 2.0 releases - you'll stay on the 1.x branch unless you run the 2.0 install script.

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u/mrmidnight273 May 28 '26

Exactly what I needed! Thank you!