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After a second day of working on the WiFi I seem to have got it all working... So here goes for #100days 6
Dynamic DNS basically makes it easier to connect to your home server from outside your network as your ip address is likely to change if you don't have some special internet service.
I use https://www.nsupdate.info/ - it's free and open source and bullshit free
To set it up on the router I go to System β Software, first update all installed packages and then install the luci-app-ddns package
This then adds a Services β Dynamic DNS menu item - but a reboot may be needed before it becomes usable. I just edit the default placeholder item with my details from nsupdate.info.
I use a special package for device tracking in Home Assistant which works really well, it's super quick in comparison with other methods I have tried. I use it to switch things on and off when I leave or arrive.
https://github.com/mueslo/openwrt_hass_devicetracker
The instructions are good and pretty easy to follow as long as you can ssh into the router. I generally wget
a release onto the router and install it.
Once everything is working you are going to want to make a backup so you don't have to go through this again like I just did.
Just go to System β Backup / Flash Firmware and click the backup button and save it somewhere safe
And that's us more or less done. There are only a few little tweaks left I may want to do like setting the default led not to be so bright and using alternative dns servers but the core of the router is working.