I had one of those sitting in a drawer for years. I think i did get OpenWRT on it at one point. Eventually it just stopped working altogether, but i felt like i got more than my money's worth out of it. Even brand new that router cost next to nothing.
the idea is more to get into hardware hacking.. the hardware is kind of irrelevant ... the most important thing is a sane UART exposed, documentation, videos about it and etc..
Just in case it helps anyone else, tio (https://github.com/tio/tio) is a great featureful alternative to picocom.
i was searching for it today.. not available in my arch, unfortunately..
What’s your arch?
the one that i was trying, omarchy.
You can use snap or brew or build from source?
I had one of those sitting in a drawer for years. I think i did get OpenWRT on it at one point. Eventually it just stopped working altogether, but i felt like i got more than my money's worth out of it. Even brand new that router cost next to nothing.
Funny enough i have the same multimeter too
The 841N works with OpenWRT. But AFAIR pretty much an EOL device with not much flash/ram.
the idea is more to get into hardware hacking.. the hardware is kind of irrelevant ... the most important thing is a sane UART exposed, documentation, videos about it and etc..
Clearly the problem is the firmware was not written in Rust. I suggest a Rust rewrite so that these sort of errors will go away.
:)
wait until somebody read it.. its one vibe coding session away from done..