MiWifi R1CM upgrade to LEDE 17.01.04

  1. Download LEDE 17.01.04 for MiWifi
  2. Download Breed for MiWifi R1CM - breed-mt7620-xiaomi-mini.bin
  3. Backup your ROM first (instruction)
  4. Upgrade uboot to Breed
    1. SSH into the router
    2. mtd -r write /tmp/breed-mt7620-xiaomi-mini.bin Bootloader
  5. Reboot to Breed 
    1. unplug power
    2. press and hold the reset button
    3. power on
    4. wait until the LED flash
    5. Login to 192.168.1.1 
  6. Upload the ROM via Breed
    1. Please reference to step 6 of my instruction on Padavan
  7. After reboot, the LUCI may not work.  It keep staying in the login screen when you press Login button.  This can be fixed by install luci-ssl below

Install LUCI (GUI for OpenWRT/LEDE)

If there is no LUCI install after, you may need to install via CLI
    1. SSH to 192.168.1.1
    2. (optional - if you do not use WAN link for Internet)
      1. change LAN IP address:
        uci set network.lan.ipaddr='192.168.1.xxx'
      2. change LAN DNS:
        uci set network.lan.dns='192.168.1.1'
      3. change default gateway:
        uci set network.lan.gateway='192.168.1.1' 
      4. Disable DHCP server:
        uci set dhcp.lan.ignore='1'
      5. Commit the change
        uci commit 
      6. Reload network config
        reload_config
      7. Check the network settings again:
        uci show network
    3. Use below commands to install luci via opkg package manager:
      1. opkg update
      2. opkg install luci
      3. opkg install luci-ssl 
    4. Reboot
    5. Then you can access the web interface LUCI.

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