Following a recent death in my family I came into possession of the Banan Pi-R4 that my uncle never got around to setting up. And since he passed away nobody else wanted it and I am starting to build a home network, so thought this would be a good starting point.
However, I am a complete noob with anything like this. I have only ever briefly used any command line stuff. I was able to install the following image on SD card. mtk-bpi-r4-MP4_1-SD-20241216. I wasn’t able to figure out how to SSH into the router, so I just connected my PC using the wifi and then went to the 192.168.1.1 address, which brings up the Luci interface.
Its from this point on I am stumped, there are so many different radios showing and I haven’t got a clue how to properly configure it.
In a nutshell, I want 3 wifi networks, main, guest and smart home. And I want to able to assign which SSIDs have access to which band on the radio. Then have standard firewalls and security etc… And I also want to be able to add my NordVPN account to the router directly.
I have tried looking for the info I need, but I get overwhelmed by all the info in no time. Any help any of you can give me would be fantastic.
if you are that unfamiliar with wifi networks and networking in general, i guess your best bet would be someone that helps you, directly, not over internet but in real life.
its not that hard to set up the wifi, you have 3 radios and add to each one a network, iirc that should be the default case (not sure because i build my own openwrt images, preconfigured). you only have to enable them and set a password and the encryption standard that should be used.
you can btw. also configure everything with command line, that could be easier if you know a bit how to edit files in terminal (e.g. with vim or nano). maybe create a screenshot of your current wifi setup, so i know whats the current situation.
I uploaded basic openwrt image with 8gb support here
Source is linked there too some posts above. But important thing is that you get debug uart working first (3.3v!) so that you see something if anything goes wrong.
