There has been some responses on here which I tried to follow, but I haven’t had much luck. I’m a newbie with openwrt and luci interface. So, I think I need clear, cut and paste instructions.
Im simply looking for instructions to add an additional guest WiFi account on each 2.4 and 5 ghz radio that is separate from my other account to connect security cameras to. Any help would be appreciated.
When adding a new account under each radio in luci, I tried coping the settings exactly the same as the existing guest WiFis, but it didn’t work properly and ssid did not display as I had entered. Maybe I chose the wrong network or need to create new interfaces?
Is there an easier way to do it via ssh, so I can copy and paste?
You may want to consider trying the V4.9.0 Beta firmware:
This already has an IoT network setup in the GL GUI, that is isolated, so you can add your camera to this wireless network.
2) Or you can simply use the existing Guest Wi-Fi by allowing guests to utilise the 5GHz band Guest network and then utilise the 2.4 GHz Guest band for your Cameras and other IoT devices (which mostly utilise the 2.4 GHz band in any case). Just give the Guest 2.4 GHz band a different SSID if you want and a different password and connect your camera to that. Guest networks are already isolated from the LAN. Most modern phones and tablets can utilise 5 GHz, so I doubt you would be sacrificing anything.
Guest and IoT will be on a different subnet, and you can still reserve the IP for your camera if you need to ensure it remains fixed from the ‘Client’ list.
I did come across that detail for V4.9.0 in my search and this is definitely what I wanted to achieve. So, it’s great news to hear that it will be native to the new firmware update, and I might give the beta a go just see how that works for now.
With regards to the work around you mentioned with the existing guest network. It was never a dealbreaker, so I knew I had that option, but thank you for clarifying that it is separate and isolated.
I wanted simple and clear instructions to setup the additional guest wifi, so that I can start see how it’s done and learn from it. I tried following various instructions I found here and also on the openwrt forum, and was able to create that extra wifi network, and it should have worked based on the forum instructions, but it didn’t. I didn’t understand why the ssid I entered wasn’t broadcasted properly. Some other ssid was broadcast instead (some AX6000… ssid). And when I have that network and the main wifi network turned on simultaneously, the extra network seems to disappear. So, there is some step I’m missing. Maybe it’s my understanding or lack of understanding of setting up devices and interfaces and associating them correctly with the new network? Maybe I’m suppose to setup the subnet range, which I’m not sure how to do yet. Whatever the case.
I’ll continue my research and learning. If I can’t move forward, at least I have options. Thank you again!
I’m no expert on this sort of stuff, but before the V4.9.0 beta firmware I also tried to setup a VLAN to create IoT networks and it was a total disaster. GL.inet use a highly customised implementation of Openwrt which is often why generic instructions on using a standard setup of openwrt won’t work. The V4.9.0 Beta should therefore do what you want and it’s also what I’m using at present if you want to keep the other features and benefits of the GL GUI, which I do. Good Luck
This could be the reason because when I first setup my IOT wireless a while ago, I noticed that if the Guest WiFi is disabled, then so is the Guest network interface and everything associated with it.
This is the answer because that's what I did since I didn't want to enable the Guest WiFi so that the IOT wireless network associated with it would work. I still used the Guest firewall on my new IOT network interface so it stayed septated, but on a different IP network.
BTW, after I created my new IOT separate interface network and my new 2.4Ghz IOT wireless network, the additional wireless network actually appeared on the primary GL GUI Wireless page.
Could you clarify which firmware version your MT6000 is currently running?
If you are using the stock firmware rather than the OpenWrt 24 (OP24) version, please refer to the following commands:
# --- Wireless Setup (5G & 2G) ---
uci add wireless wifi-iface
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].device='mt798612'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].network='guest'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].mode='ap'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].ssid='GL-MT6000-5G-Guest'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].encryption='psk2'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].key='goodlife'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].ifname='rax3'
uci add wireless wifi-iface
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].device='mt798611'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].network='guest'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].mode='ap'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].ssid='GL-MT6000-Guest'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].encryption='psk2'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].key='goodlife'
uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[-1].ifname='ra3'
uci commit
Due to the stock firmware being based on QSDK/MTK SDK, LuCI does not always integrate well with the Wi-Fi drivers.
We recommend comparing the contents of /etc/config/wireless between the built-in wireless interfaces and the ones you created manually, then adding any missing fields as needed.
Thank you for this. This most useful. I am just on stock firmware 4.8.3.
The command you listed looks like instructions for adding a third gust wifi network connection?
On my setup, I had previously looked at the /etc/config/wireless file, and I did notice missing fields when comparing to the existing ones. And you are correct with the ifname field being missed. For the existing main WiFi and guest WiFi, I believe they are assigned ra0 and ra1 (rax0 and rax1), so logically ra2 and rax2 would be used instead of ra3 and rax3 in your command? Or it does matter?
There were also missing fields in the WiFi I set up, per below. Are these necessary to add back?