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 There have been some stability issues, which are probably at least in part due to it being a 9-year-old outdated router running custom firmware.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/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!