[rubenbe]

It's for exactly that reason I started with OpenSOHO. It is targeted towards the typical home and small office network with less than 20 OpenWRT devices. (although there is no hard limit).

https://github.com/rubenbe/opensoho

It is still a work in progress, but it is easy to deploy (one golang binary based on pocketbase)

[pseudosavant]

Very interesting project! I was thinking of something that would fill this gap.

Based on your experience, as OpenSOHO seems to use OpenWISP, what do you wish you knew about OpenWISP before you started this?

[rubenbe]

Initially I fiddled a bit with full Open wisp stack to try to make a smaller edition. But I quickly stopped that. But I know their two daemons well.

The config one is a neat little piece of software. It will merge UCI configs and check the connectivity. You can adjust virtually any file with it (although not always with merging). My main issue with it is that it can't be easily temporary disabled from the central controller (I currently implement it by not sending the config, but that triggers retries on the AP end)

The monitoring one spits out an amazing amount of data, although it needs some post processing to make it actually useful. Unfortunately that one can't be extented to add custom entries. I'm currently missing an easy way to see which MAC address is connected which LAN port since OpenWRT DSA puts everyone one the "br-lan".

The whole thing is polling based. So it is quite chatty on the network since I use lower polling rates to make the updates fast. (I suspect on a setup with 100+ you will have longer polling times). All in all the existence of these daemons saved me a ton of time handling networking corner cases. Kudos to the Openwisp team.

[CursedSilicon]

This looks a lot closer to what I'm after. Bookmarked the git repo :)