StartWrt development state / Can it run on Protectli or Glinet Hardware?

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Hi,

I have been listening to most of the podcasts where Matt was on the last years and have heard him talking about the new router (and cameras) Start9 is working on in the background.

The first product which was shared via link was a router which was similar or equal to the Protectli Vault V1210 – Intel N5105. At that time I needed a router anyway and I bought that device already to be ready when StartWrt comes out.

In March a new product was shown which is a StartWrt router based on a RISC-V chip and more open-source than the Protectli vault, which is great. As far as I know it is similar to the Banana Pi BPI-F3.

That articles announced the new router and also has a link to support the project and buy the router (link below), but sadly that does not work anymore.

The buy link (not working): btcpay.start9.com

Ok with all this info,
What is the current state of the StartWrt software and hardware? Is it still planned and in the works? (I saw some releases on Github)

Does the Startwrt software run on other devices like a Protectli or Glinet?
Is it already ready and secure enough to use in ones own home network? properly tested via LLMs?

Is this the best place to ask these kind of questions or should I ask them somewhere else?

Thanks for all the info you can share about the topic! :slight_smile:

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DIY version of StartWrt would be great as I would want to have it on my own hardware supporting 2.5g for WAN and LAN ports, 1gig ports are going to bottleneck me and the connections I’m paying for.

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@matthill Could you please give us an update about it and let us know if the StartWRT software will be available for other hardware, especially the above mentioned V1210? :slight_smile:

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Yes, it will be available for other platforms. aarch64 first, then amd64 later. But ultimately, anything that can run OpenWRT will be able to run StartWRT.

Router purchases will be re-enabled when our new website drops later this month.

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Thanks for the reply. Great, looking forward to it.
Will be using OpenWRT in the meantime.