OpenWrt Compilation

OpenWrt for WeIO - Compilation Instructions

• Install tools that are needed for correct compilation. For example on Ubuntu Linux you will install these packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core subversion build-essential libssl-dev libncurses5-dev unzip gawk libxml-parser-perl

• Clone the OpenWrt repo

git clone git://git.openwrt.org/15.05/openwrt.git

• Clone the WeIO repo and switch to branch 'next'

git clone https://github.com/nodesign/weio.git
cd weio
git checkout next

• Copy and run installWeio.sh

Copy https://github.com/nodesign/weio/blob/master/openWrt/installWeio.sh to the OpenWrt root directory, and from that directory run:

sh ./installWeio.sh <path_to_weio>

Where <path_to_weio> is the relative path to the checked out https://github.com/nodesign/weio.git

• Run make menuconfig and exit immediately

make menuconfig

This is important to avoid the warning that your configuration is out of sync.

• Compile the OpenWrt

make -j 4

• Copy the update to an SD card
  Navigate to the folder openwrt/bin and look for a file openwrt-ar71xx-generic-weio-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin. Copy it to the SD card and rename it to weio_recovery.bin.

• Update the board
  Plug the SD card to the board, and hold the Soft Reset button while applying power via USB. U-boot will automatically update the board with the newest firmware. More details for how to manually flash your WeIO boards you can find here : https://github.com/nodesign/weio/wiki/WeIO-Recovery