Received 5 Meraki Minis today to play with. This page contains random notes:
- Device is openable with two screws hidden behind the silver foil label on the back. Upper right, lower left with label facing you.
- A four-pin 3.3V serial header is present, compatible with a serial console cable constructed for the Netgear WGT634U. With antenna on top, the unused 3.3V pin is on the left. Ground is on the right. The middle two pins are consistent with the WGT, whatever that is.
Meraki-supplied hacking stuff is available from [http://www.meraki.net/linux here].
Device uses RedBoot, similar to CFE on the WGT. Some description can be found [http://sourceware.org/redboot/ here].
- Unpack the openwrt-meraki tarball, and follow instructions in openwrt-meraki/Meraki.README
Attempt to build openwrt-meraki first stumbles on a minor tar incompatibility. Patch as [https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/4185 here].
- No obvious place to feedback fixes, not obvious why they forked the openwrt buildroot rather than improving openwrt... well, except for the obvious reason: stability. It would be interesting to know when the fork occurred and how tractable a recovergance would be. This is terra incognita at the moment. The other interesting bit is the reflashing procedure. Obviously somewhat different than for the WGT, and potentially dangerous.
- There is a build dependency of ruby for ruby.
- Some of the downloads point at a host called: high.meraki.net, which presently is resolving here to 172.22.0.210, which is a private IP per RFC 1918. Non-connections there seem to fail-over to a working source, however.