Install OpenWisp #

The routers should be able to acces to your openwisp domain. In our case they couldn’t and our solution was to manually write it in the router’s hosts list.

vim /etc/hosts

Under the localhost we write the following:

192.168.10.155 openwisp.gandiol.hahatay.network

[!Note]
This was our half-baked solution but ideally we should find why the master router is not giving the others the DNS.

[!IMPORTANT]
After this step, it would be safe to double check if now the router reaches the domain. If not, a reboot may be needed.

The following step is to check if the router has any openwisp package installed.

opkg list-installed | grep openwisp

If not, install it.

opkg update
opkg install openwisp-config
opkg install openwisp-monitoring

This installs the newest version that the software of the router can manage.

Once installed, some edit is needed in the openwisp configuration file.

vim /etc/config/openwisp

We can erase its content and write the following instead (this was what we needed, but many other options can be configured here)

config controller 'http'
        option url 'https://openwisp.gandiol.hahatay.network'
	option verify_ssl '0'
    	option shared_secret 'shared-secret-of-the-organization'
    	option management_interface 'eth0.2'
	option uuid ''
    	option key ''

Here we edit: the url of our domain, the verify_ssl option (0 in our case, we did not have verification), the shared_secret (this is obtained in your openwisp interface, going to the configuration of the organization to which the device will belong, creating a new one if needed), the management_interface (which depends on the router and version of openWRT, it can be checked in luci->interfaces, if it is a master it will be something like ‘wan’ or ‘eth0.2’ and if it is a slave it will normally be ‘br-lan’) and the uuid and key which will be given by the software once the agent is activated.

Finally, we activate the agent.

/etc/init.d/openwisp-config restart

[!IMPORTANT]
Depending on the version of openwisp, it may be openwisp_config.

If everything has worked out correctly, we may now see the device in our openwisp. If something is not working we can check what is happening.

logread | grep openwisp