[wryun]

The sweet spot in my opinion is to use an ordinary Linux box as the router and just wire up whatever wireless router(s) you have lying around for the APs (give them a static address in the appropriate subnet and you're done). No need to run OpenWRT on on the AP, since it's just mindlessly pushing packets around on the internal network.

For bonus points, block it from accessing the internet itself.

[mkopec]

I have a PC Engines apu2 board (x86 based) with a Mediatek Wi-Fi 6 card, running OpenWRT. Can do gigabit over Wi-Fi with PPPoE based WAN. If I had to get another AP it would probably be another apu2, too bad these are outrageously expensive now.

(should probably disclose that I am one of the devs that maintained the apu2 coreboot boot firmware)

My problem with APs running proprietary FW is that I don't trust them to be secure, even if the vendor does updates, you never know what they're doing in the background. E.g. some APs have a hidden secondary SSID for their proprietary mesh implementation. With OpenWRT I can set them up exactly the way I want to, using open standards (mesh, roaming) instead of vendor-specific crap.

[aojdwhsd]

Interesting, which Mediatek card are you using? I'm thinking about doing the same thing.

[AviationAtom]

This is definitely the way. I used to use UniFi, but have kicked it to the curb. Omada is my AP Zen now.

[ulkhf]

I'm also an Omada fan. I just have two APs right now but I love controlling them from a single dashboard and look forward to adding their ER605 router so I can put my security cameras on a separate VLAN.

[vamega]

Why Omada over Unifi? Aren’t they mostly the same? Both need a controller running somewhere, and not sure why one would be better/worse than the other.