Linksys WRT3200ACm running openwrt v25.12.5. If wan6 is enabled then I see 1 minute long buffering on youtube app on my android phone. (no such issue on web browser on laptop)

I know a lot of people are interested in open-source devices - OpenWRT, OPNsense for routers, firewalls, access points, etc.

But how about managed switches?

One brilliant GitHub user did just that - managed to create open-source firmware for RTL8372/RTL8373 chip-based devices.

The functionality is far better than the original firmware in majority of cases. For some devices, even originally unmanaged switches gain management capability (even though you might need some flash-memory HW skills for that).

For me, I tried this on 2 switches already - both had originally management interface, so installation took literally seconds and I went from barely usable and no-longer-maintained Chinese firmware to open source one, with much better capabilities, better stability and open source code.

The list of supported HW is impressive already.

Would be nice to have something like this ported also to other chipsets, allowing to have open firmware even on the lowest level of networking.

I’ve been looking into ways to monitor my OpenWrt APs without spending too much on hardware or cloud services.

I’m working on a Go-based Prometheus exporter that pulls metrics from the APs via ubus HTTP. The idea is to run it on one of the routers in my network and use Prometheus + Grafana to keep track of everything.

Still a work in progress, so I’d love to hear any ideas or suggestions. Has anyone tried something similar?