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I own a Turris Omnia. It's been my main router for over 2 years. I don't use a lot of the stuff they've added on top of vanilla OpenWRT, but there are a few th
by cassianoleal 5y ago
I own a Turris Omnia. It's been my main router for over 2 years.
I don't use a lot of the stuff they've added on top of vanilla OpenWRT, but there are a few things that make me want to stay and probably buy the next hardware revision when it comes around:
- The hardware support is great
- The ability to add M.2 SSD for running LXC containers and generally saving data (logs, etc) without worrying about wearing out the internal flash
- BTRFS snapshots with a handy CLI to manage them, rollback, etc (also on the web UI if that's your thing)
- Automatic upgrades
- Automatic snapshotting before and after upgrades, which is great if an upgrade bricks it. Hasn't happened to me even once but it's good to know it's there.
- Hardware button can be used to restore latest snapshot or factory
- When restoring previous snapshot doesn't cut it, restoring factory keeps snapshots around so you can easily get back to your previous configs and fix forward
- Declarative package management
- Full access to pretty much everything OpenWRT has to offer anyway - caveat that if you customise certain things you can't use the "official" web UI (reForis) for those. My network config is managed exclusively over LuCI, uci, config files, for instance.
- Open, hackable hardware
Edit: formatting
- camtarn 5y agoHm, I really like all the snapshotting features! And the M.2 slot and hackable hardware are definitely a plus.
- pabs3 5y agoHmm, I din't think the Omnia had an M.2 slot, I guess you are talking about then next hardware revision. It isn't clear there will be one, considering there is Turris MOX now.
- cassianoleal 5y agoHuh, you're right. It's been a while since I added mine but it's indeed not an M.2, it's an mSATA. Thanks for the correction.