I’m sorry but I cannot relate. Public projects for things like RPi work - this deviates a lot from BPi I have.
I created a v2 ceiling access point case. I converted two bpi-r4 to use poe+ and mounted both of them on the ceiling in my home. They’ve been working well with a 120mm fan. I’m seeing idle temps of 33c and peaks of 59c.
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May I ask which antennas you used? I plan something similar!
Could you maybe upload the latest version of your case in stl again. I like it but have the same problem as the guy before with dividing the parts of 3mf. Since the original metal case creates more RF noise I would switch to a 3D printed case.
Your case looks awesome, just im also needing access to the boot switches without needing to open the case
very cool. How about for the other side?
Hi guys 
Has anyone modeled just the top cover of the original case to add some ventilation? If such a model exists, please share it.
would you consider uploading to printables or makerworld? would be easier for others to find it and reuse the design
most stuff I found had very specific use cases like rack mount, etc.
I am working on this thing (without any ETA), firstly for myself, because I want something that looks like a standard desktop router from any other brands. A decade ago I had an Archer C7 with very fancy LEDs. I designed something similar by myself and it came out in very good shape from my 3D printer (transparent PLA).
Here is how it looks now: iCloud Photo Sharing
For the technical perspective, for the LEDs, I am using pogo pins, to hijack the ETH LEDs from the connector solder points and three more pogo pins for the reset and WDS button (by this test print, this idea looks like a working one). For the other LEDs (system, storage, internet, wifi1,2,3 and the two SFP LEDs) I defined LED devices on the free GPIOs. Because I wanted to use vanilla, unmodified OpenWRT I had to figure out how to add something for the device tree without touching anything which was provided by the OpenWRT (link). Because my plan is to only use one SIM, this was the only one which has been “extended” to the outer world via some extension cable. I am trying to design it to use as few supports as I can.
It looks great, too. I just wanted something that could be mounted in a 10“ or 19” rack. At the same time, I wanted to address the cooling issue. The fact that there’s no option to mount a fan on top bothers me the most. But since the manufacturers aren’t offering anything, I’ll just have to build something myself…