I am not using the wireless radios, I have a better access point, is there a way to fully turn off the wifi radios, I see in LuCI Statistics each radio at 50C in temperature, even tough they are disabled in OpenWrt, they are using a lot of energy idle to have a temperature higher than the processor, thanks
Hmm, what firmware version are you running?
if it is the MTK sdk variant i won't trust luci ui too much , instead using the cli towards path:
/sys/class/thermal i think in thermal_zone0 but im not sure which one is which if someone found it please correct me 
^ you can use a opkg package called lm-sensors and use command sensors, it takes it also raw from /sys/ these results are much more reliable than luci if on mtk sdk just to be extra sure.
I also got a other theory:
The heat gets disapated and perhaps the cpu heat influences the sensor for wifi (if there is a sensor for that, im not sure either).
Maybe GL-iNet knows this?, @bruce do you have a clue?
Thank you, LuCI statistics with the sensors package uses lm-sensors (collectd-mod-sensors) to show the information, that’s what I am using
I doubt you can turn them off completely. They will consume energy all the time - even when disabled.
But 50°C is fine. It‘s a router 
Will confirm with hardware team.
As we know, there is a large heat sink inside the device, which is in direct contact with some key chips for improve heat dissipation, so the temperature is only reference, since probably the temperature of the CPU conducted to the WiFi chips through the heat sink, but the performance of the heat sink is very sufficient, so the overall temperature of the device It is controllable.
Example 50 degrees is a very normal temperature, also the MT7986 is a high-performance chip for the router.
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