| OpenWrt Powerline Support D-Link DHP-1565 | |
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| Participants | Dennis |
| Skills | Reading docs, Building OpenWrt |
| Status | In progress |
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Description
I bought a D-Link DHP-1565 router. As with al my routers, I'd like to run OpenWrt on it. The official images however do not support the Powerline (PLC) functionality built in in this model, this is why I did something similar as described here. I can now successfully use the PLC functionality of this device together with two D-Link DHP-500AV Powerline AV 500 adapters.
How to get this to work
Built image with patched kernel
I succesfully built an image that has this patch applied. Images (18.06-SNAPSHOT, r7853-f6de1fa6c6) can be downloaded here. It looks like the link on port 6 is there, this means the switch can talk to the AR7400 PLC chipset now.
Add port 6 to a VLAN
Edit /etc/config/network such that port 6 is in a VLAN you want. I chose VLAN 2, which means the WAN interface. Of course you should be aware of the security implications when your WAN interface is actually connected to the outside world.
Install stuff from open-plc-utils
Looks like we do not need to build this, since there are packages in the OpenWrt repo's. I started with installing open-plc-utils-amptool, open-plc-utils-ampboot, open-plc-utils-ampstat and openplc-utils-modpib.
Extracting PLC firmware from downloaded router firmware
- Download firmware from https://tsd.dlink.com.tw/
- Extract the .rar, it should give you a .bin file
- Install binwalk and sasquatch
apt install binwalk
git clone https://github.com/devttys0/sasquatch cd sasquatch/ ./build.sh
- Run binwalk on the .bin
binwalk -e DHP1565A1_FW100B35.bin
PLC stuff can be found in _DHP1565A1_FW100B35.bin.extracted/squashfs-root/plc.
- On the device, create /overlay/upper/plc/
- Copy all .pib and .nvm files to /overlay/upper/plc/
Set the NMK
The Network Management Key (NMK) is the key used to join a network. You can use hpavkey to generate one. I did this on my laptop, but you can do it on the device when you install open-plc-utils-hpavkey.
hpavkey -M myverysecurepassword
This example will give you the following to use as NMK:
17EFC430E2A9A9D746210878D68E6B19
You can put the NMK it in the .pib file that we will load later on:
modpib -N 17EFC430E2A9A9D746210878D68E6B19 /overlay/upper/plc/plc.ceb.pib
Loading the firmware
The command listed in here did not seem to show that the bootloader is waiting for firmware:
# amptool -i eth0.2 -Iar eth0.2 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Request Version Information eth0.2 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Fetch Device Attributes eth0.2 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Device Identity
But when we try it on br-lan, it does!
# amptool -i br-wan -Iar br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Request Version Information br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 AR7400 BootLoader br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Fetch Device Attributes br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Device Identity
Loading the firmware looked succesful:
root@loetje:~# ampboot -i br-wan -P /plc/plc.ceb.pib -N /plc/plc.nvm br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Write /plc/plc.nvm (0) (00000040:17256) br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Start /plc/plc.nvm (0) (000000C0) br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Write /plc/plc.ceb.pib (0) (00200000:16352) br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Write /plc/plc.nvm (3) (00341194:423788) br-wan 00:B0:52:00:00:01 Start /plc/plc.nvm (3) (00341A88) br-wan 00:01:23:45:67:8B INT7400-MAC-5-2-5203-01-913-20110713-FINAL-B is running
Autoload at boot
I simply put following line in /etc/rc.local:
ampboot -i br-wan -P /plc/plc.ceb.pib -N /plc/plc.nvm
Note: this only works when power was disabled. If power stays on and you reboot the device, the old firmware will stay loaded and the AR7400 will not go into bootloader mode, so the command above will fail. This is mainly an issue when you want another firmware (nvm) or change settings (pib).
Todo
- Paint the damn thing like in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiD7xdG1kM
- Measure power consumption