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Don't these devices have one of those hardware reset holes like routers do? I find them very useful because worst case scenario, just insert a pin and wait for
by noisy_boy 6y ago
Don't these devices have one of those hardware reset holes like routers do? I find them very useful because worst case scenario, just insert a pin and wait for 10s which is great if your menu/software side is broken.
- dehrmann 6y agoI've played with OpenWRT a lot. This might have changed, but for a long time, routers stored the firmware on a flash chip and settings on an nvram chip. They might be the same chip, but you can think of settings and the OS being logically separated. The reset button reset nvram. If the vendor did an OTA firmware update (which no one used to to) and sent a bad update, the reset switch won't help. Some routers have recovery procedures that flash using the bootloader (also on the flash chip, but it's obviously best not to mess with it), downloading the firmware from a PC. If that fails, that's the end of the officially supported options that a 80th percentile user can do.
- noisy_boy 6y agoI didn't know these details - thank you.