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Xiaomi MiWiFi R3
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== How to install LibreMesh on the Xiaomi MiWiFi R3


This is a pretty good device with lots of memory, one of the last dual band devices easily hackable. Installing LibreMesh/LEDE/OpenWrt is a bit more work but can be done. Here are the instructions:

Follow these steps:

* First, get ssh/dropbear access: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/mir3#to_get_sshdropbear_access (don't forget to downgrade the firmware before)

* Download LibreMesh rootfs and kernel files from here:
 - https://mega.nz/#!8A9CUJLQ!gJNC3SfwDdmMZ4y9BXlWp4mcn1FTAU3vWgsVYK2vW4w
 - https://mega.nz/#!1QdkxKgb!7htQD4bE9AbYotPkEQYriI5zF2LDe27A62h7S2tq9VM

* Copy these files over scp to the router:
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scp lede-ramips-mt7620nand-miwifi-r3-squashfs-kernel1.bin   root@192.168.15.1:/tmp/
scp lede-ramips-mt7620nand-miwifi-r3-squashfs-rootfs0.bin   root@192.168.15.1:/tmp/
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* login through ssh:
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ssh root@192.168.15.1
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* type in the commands (from chen's instructions https://github.com/ptpt52/lede-source/issues/1)
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nvram set flag_last_success=1
nvram set boot_wait=on
nvram set uart_en=1
nvram commit
mtd write /tmp/lede-ramips-mt7620nand-miwifi-r3-squashfs-kernel1.bin kernel1
mtd write /tmp/lede-ramips-mt7620nand-miwifi-r3-squashfs-rootfs0.bin rootfs0
reboot
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* and it should be meshing already!

== Upgrading from OpenWRT/LEDE

If you somehow installed OpenWRT/LEDE before installing LibreMesh, here is the sysupgrade file:

https://mega.nz/#!tV0EzJZD!XblvULWZgjvx0d9RqdwJYbKkZOKTeHT-J6oBRQYw0Ls