You can remotely manage the android openwrt using web browser from desktop computer or anywhere else. If you want to install some package, you can find the software package and install it through luci web interface
Then configure putty as shown in the figure, fill in the IP address of the Android set-top box/mobile phone, select SSH, and click Open to connect. The default password of root is asdf1234.
There are several benefits of using transmission PT/BT downloads on Android set-top boxes: low power consumption, ultra-quiet, 24-hour seeding, and remote management from anywhere. Here is how to use android transmission:
Enter the Android openwrt address in the browser, and visit openwrt luci web page, then navigate to transmission section.
transmission configuration example
Use a browser to access the transmission web management interface http://xx.xx.xx.xx:9091 on the desktop computer. If you want to manage transmission with a mobile phone, you can use Android transdroid app. The following is the familiar transmission web management interface
Upload torrent files to android transmission
Don’t forget to configure port forwarding for the transmission peer port on your router
After the video is downloaded, it can be played directly on the Android set-top box; or use minidlna to share the video and stream to the desktop computer, mobile phone or other Android set-top box to watch
Here is the demo video:
1. Enable minidlna in web luci
2. After starting, you can visit http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8200 in the browser to see the status of minidlna. Every time it starts, minidlna scans multimedia files from scratch, so it will take a while to display status.
3、Using MediaHouse or BubbleUPnP on Android phones, VLC Media Player on desktop computer, you will find “OpenWrt DLNA Server”
MediaHouse
4. Then you can browse the shared multimedia. It is recommended to use MX Player to play video on Android phones.
If you have some old phones collecting dust in a drawer somewhere, don’t sell them for a fraction of what you bought them for. If they still turn on, you can put them to good use in your home.
You could turn one into a baby monitor or a makeshift Google Home speaker, etc. One of the most useful ways to upcycle an old phone is to make it into a home security camera.
1、First install the IP camera APP on the phone, so that you can use the phone camera for video surveillance
config user name and passwordAfter starting monitoring, you can get the rtsp url address from the APP interface
There are several issues in video surveillance with mobile phones alone:
Mobile phone SD card space is limited, unable to store a lot of videos
The mobile phone SD card has a limit on the write cycles. Frequent storage of video files on the SD card will damage the SD card
There is no unified management portal if you have several mobile phone
Cannot access the network surveillance video from the internet
But if you use Android Openwrt together, you can get the following benefits:
You can manage and browse multiple mobile phones camera in a unified interface
The video can be saved on the USB hard disk connected to the set-top box
You can browse the network surveillance video from the internet through frpc
2、Use a browser to access the Android openwrt motioneye web management interface, the address is http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8765, xx.xx.xx.xx is the ip address of Android openwrt
username is admin, and initial password is emptySelect the “add camera” drop-down menu in the upper left cornerConfigure camera type according to the rtsp url and usrname/password on the mobile APPConfigure the storage location of pictures and videos, it is recommended to save it on the hard diskInput movies configInput motion detection configAfter clicking “apply” button in the upper left corner, you will see the camera image
Here is a video clip recorded by motion when activity was detected.
If you want to send an email notification after the activity is detected, you can configure the activity notification, as shown in the figure below:
And with frpc you can access motion video surveillance from the internet.
Western Digital my passport has password security function, but currently only the windows system has WD security utility, not the Android system. This software is the one and only Western Digital password unlocking tool on Android system.
If the hard disk is password protected and inserted into an Android device, it cannot be accessed. And you need to enter the password through Android openwrt’s luci web management system to unlock it.
Enter the Western Digital password utility configuration from the luci web management interface
Click the “add” button to add the disk configuration that needs to be unlocked
Enter the disk device and password, then click the “Save&Apply” button
Then the disk can be accessed, and through the mount configuration of luci, click “add” button to add configuration to mount the disk to the directory
