Kamoj Kamoj information add-on V3 for Netgear R7800 X4S and R9000 X10 (Temperatures a.o.)

[kamoj]

Nota Bene: This add-on is obsolete. Please use new version at:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/kamoj-information-add-on-v4-for-netgear-r7800-x4s-and-r9000-x10-temperatures-a-o.55063/

Introduction:

This add-on adds information (and corrects some) on the routers "debug-page":
http://www.routerlogin.net/debug.htm (Same page as where you enable Telnet)

• This is an update of an existing add-on (See Release Note below for information).
• More information and functions are added.
• Minor bug is corrected

Pre-requisites:

• Preferrable latest version of Voxel Firmware for your router, e.g.:
  For R7800:
  https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build-for-r7800-v-1-0-2-63sf.54782/
  For R9000:
  https://www.snbforums.com/threads/custom-firmware-build-for-r9000-v-1-0-4-16hf-1-0-4-16hf-hw.54919/
  
• A telnet client program
• Spoiler: How to enable Telnet on Windows 10

  Hold down the Windows Key, then press the “R“ key.
  The Run dialog box appears. In the Open: window, type:
  pkgmgr /iu:”TelnetClient”
  Click OK
• Internet connection (To download the add-on installation file)

How to install:
#1. Logon (From your web-browser):
http://www.routerlogin.net

#2. Make a backup of current settings (Not needed, but easyily done):

Spoiler: How to backup current settings

Advanced, Administration, Backup Settings, Back Up, Save

#3. Enable Telnet:
http://www.routerlogin.net/debug.htm
Check (Set a tick in the box for) "Enable Telnet". (No apply needed)

#4. Login to the router using telnet:

Spoiler: How to open a command window in Windows 10

Hold down the Windows Key, then press the “R“ key.
The Run dialog box appears. In the Open: window, type:
cmd
Click OK.

telnet www.routerlogin.net

The password is the same as from the normal router login page http://routerlogin.net

#5. Download the add-on:

For R7800:

curl -k -O https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_ipq806x.ipk
# or:
wget --no-check-certificate https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_ipq806x.ipk

For R9000:

curl -k -O https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_r9000.ipk
# or:
wget --no-check-certificate https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_r9000.ipk

#6. Install:
For R7800:

/bin/opkg install --force-overwrite kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_ipq806x.ipk

For R9000:

/bin/opkg install --force-overwrite kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_r9000.ipk

#7. Finish the installation with a reboot:

reboot

#8. To see the result, open your web-browser and again go to:
http://www.routerlogin.net/debug.htm

DONE!

Spoiler: Uninstall/Removal

Uninstall/Removal:
Login to the router using telnet and issue these commands:

/bin/opkg remove kamoj-debug-page
reboot

Content:

Spoiler: Content, Information headers

Content, Information headers:

• Router Information
• CPU Load Total (per core)
  
• Memory Usage (Used/Total)
• Flash Usage (Used/Total)
• NVRAM Usage (Used/Total)
• Network Session (Active/Total)
• CPU Governors and Frequencies
• Temperatures CPU / WiFi0 / WiFi1
• Temperatures 802.11ad Radio / Antenna
• WiFi0
• WiFi1
• 802.11ad 60 GHz
• OpenVPN Clients Available
• OpenVPN Client Name
• OpenVPN Client Status
• DNSCrypt v1 Servers
• DNSCrypt v2 Servers
• Stubby DNS Servers
  
• Congestion Control; Current ( Available )
• NTP synchronized
• DNS status
• Internet connection status
• Port Status
• WAN Speed (average value)
• eSATA Device
• USB Device
• System Version Information
• System Uptime

Additional functions:

• Fast time synchronization even when Netgear ntp is not working.
• Show all devices in "Attached Devices" and "Access Control" - even when idle/sleeping.
• Supervision of the WAN connection, and make Power LED amber if no connection.

Future:
You are welcome to wish for more information to be added,
or even other add-ons.

Next add-on planned to be released might be "By-pass OpenVPN for specific devices".
This "Policy based routing lite" will be fast and easy to control with original GUI!

Thanks:
To Voxel for all help and support he's given to many people during long time.
He is a true professional, higly intelligent, kind, humble and supportive person.

To everyone active in the forum, especially those that has commented on my add-on:
percy3, Tom_Batty, Murtaza12, farenheit, heidarren, GaselK, boby7, Philip, pege63,
Darren_H97, HowIFix, MinkyMomo, RebelShadow, W1lliam, XBryan, blundersdome, bzq2810, thiggins, vladlenas

/Kamoj

Spoiler: Release Note

Release Note / Changes since last release:

Previous version can be found here:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/k...on-for-netgear-r7800-x4s-and-r9000-x10.48965/
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/k...tgear-r7800-x4s-running-voxel-firmware.48139/

Previously installed version doesn't need to be uninstalled.
Installation of this version will upgrade to latest version.

Added Information:

• Router Information. E.g. Serial number (percy3)
• Information about used Flash file system
  
• OpenVPN Client Status: Version of OpenVPN and OpenSSL
  
• DNSCrypt-Proxy v1 info: Version
  
• DNSCrypt-Proxy v2
  
• Stubby DNS

Changed:

• CPU frequency now given in GHz/MHz/KHz. (percy3)
  
• Check for idle devices: added sleep 40000 us after every ip.

Corrected:

• Bug for R7800 giving errors about non-existing 60GHz WiFi corrected. (percy3)

Added Functionality:

• Supervision of the WAN connection, and make Power LED amber if no connection. (percy3)
  
• Use specified WWW for DNS-test if specified in nvram. (percy3)
  
• Use specified IP for internet-test if specified in nvram, "gateway" is also valid. (percy3)
  
• Added nvram flags flags to change/switch off certain add-on functions

Spoiler: How to change change add-on behaviour, using nvram variables

• kamoj_no_ntp_check : Don't try to speed up setting correct date and time
  
• kamoj_no_temp_check : Don't supervise top temperature
  
• kamoj_no_wan_speed : Don't measure current WAN speed
  
• kamoj_no_add_ons : Don't run other Kamoj add-ons
  
• kamoj_no_show_idle : Don't try to show idle/sleeping devices
  
• kamoj_no_wan_pwr : Don't make Power LED amber when WAN connection is lost. (percy3)
  
• kamoj_ping_www : Domain name for ping. Default is www.cloudflare.com. (percy3)
  
• kamoj_ping_ip : IP-address or "gateway" to automatically used current gateway. Default is 1.1.1.1. (percy3)

How to use these nvram variables:

• To switch off a function, run e.g. these commands (end with "nvram commit")

nvram set kamoj_no_wan_pwr=1
nvram set kamoj_ping_www=www.google.com
nvram set kamoj_ping_ip=gateway
nvram commit

• To switch on a function again, run e.g. these commands(end with "nvram commit")

nvram unset kamoj_no_wan_pwr
nvram unset kamoj_ping_www
nvram unset kamoj_ping_ip
nvram commit

 

[MinkyMomo]

Nice work, Kamoj... I'm puzzled by the screenshot you provided though--the version strings all say R7800 and yet there's a phantom 802.11ad radio listed... Is this the same bug previously reported by percy3? Perhaps an old screenshot?

 

[kamoj]

Thank you for the "like"!
Good eye there
The screenshot is fabricated. I got the R9000 screens shots from another user.
It's just to show all information for both R7800 and R9000.
Also you can not use DNSCrypt-Proxy 1 and 2 and Stubby at the same time..
Hope you get the the idea!

Nice work, Kamoj... I'm puzzled by the screenshot you provided though--the version strings all say R7800 and yet there's a phantom 802.11ad radio listed... Is this the same bug previously reported by percy3? Perhaps an old screenshot?

 

[percy3]

@kamoj new version is great! Anyway I have tested it (while waiting for NG support) on OEM firmware (V1.0.2.60) and it works fine. The only issue is with wget lack of https support so ipk needs to be sideloaded or stored on server with http access.

 

[kamoj]

What about curl ? Does OEM support that?

 

[percy3]

good hint. curl -k -O does the trick

 

[Voxel]

The only issue is with wget lack of https support so ipk needs to be sideloaded or stored on server with http access.

Just FYI: Since 1.0.2.61SF ca-certificates package is added to firmware for R7800.

2. getdns, unbound, yaml, ca-certificates packages are added (stubby dependences).

R9000 has this package already long time. So just

wget https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/kamoj-debug-page_181110-160001-1_ipq806x.ipk

should be OK.

Voxel.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

Add showing the wireless speed of attached wireless clients. Not all clients have an option to show status and these Netgears don't show client speed. The data is available as Kamoj provided a simple script for me to show it. Can it be automated though and included in the GUI?

 

[percy3]

Add showing the wireless speed of attached wireless clients. Not all clients have an option to show status and these Netgears don't show client speed. The data is available as Kamoj provided a simple script for me to show it. Can it be automated though and included in the GUI?

You mean /sbin/wlan stainfo command?

 

[kamoj]

You may be posting this in the wrong thread. This is for the add-on v3.
If you update to v3, you can read in first post here:
Spoiler: How to change change add-on behaviour, using nvram variables

Hi Kamoj
Can i ask why in my debug page it show the DNS as cloudfare when i have PIA dns servers?
View attachment 15228

 

[e38BimmerFN]

Just wanted to add something to this thread. I updated to v.61SF on my R7800 in Wireless bridge mode today just to see what the experience would be. The update took fine and I was able to continue to connect to the R7800 in bridge mode to it's IP address. Since I was told that any add-ons prior to FW update would be wiped at update time, I wanted to see if re-adding the add-on in wireless mode would take. I followed the instructions in telnet and saw everything was installed for the add-on. I did the reboot from telnet and the router rebooted. I had gained Internet access, however I lost access to the R7800 in wireless bridge mode. I scanned for it's IP address and nothing came up. I was at .121. I saw nothing from the host router nor on mobile wifi scan apps. Odd. I thought, oh lordy the AP Mode bug is back. So I did a factory reset and figured, lets set up from scratch. Did the reset and went in and just change from router mode back to Wireless Bridge mode. Selected the radio I wanted. The router rebooted and this time I got Internet access AND an IP address for the R7800 in bridge mode. Not sure why I lost the IP address for it after re-enabling your add-on in bridge mode initially. However a reset seems to have cleared that up and the add-on persists thru the reset so everything is there on the debug page after the reset.

I presume this may not happen in router mode.

 

[jsmiddleton4]

This one:


dni_wlan stainfo | awk '/:/ {print $1"\t"$2"\t"($3-95)"dBm"}'

 

[e38BimmerFN]

Interesting. Ya seems odd that enabling an add-on causes the IP address to disappear until a reset is performed. AT least thats what I'm seeing. However it's not great solution if you have to resetup everything from scratch again. Unless you have a saved config file on hand. Again, the R7800 has an IP address up until the point of adding the add-on and installing it then doing a reboot from the telnet window. I have not tried powering OFF the router then back on. Something to try as well.

 

[percy3]

This one:


dni_wlan stainfo | awk '/:/ {print $1"\t"$2"\t"($3-95)"dBm"}'

@kamoj,

Is there a way to list as well networks identification and in output replace MAC addresses with names? Something like:
###2.4G###
host_a 52Mbps -59dBm
host_b 114Mbps -79dBm
host_c 70Mbps -63dBm

###5G###
host_d 845Mbps -63dBm

###2.4G Guest###
host_e 70Mbps -63dBm
host_f 1Mbps -71dBm

 

[kamoj]

I think it's easier to uninstall the add-on than "resetup everything from scratch again".

If you really want to help, please try isolate the problem by disabling add-on functions, one-by one.
See first posting:
Spoiler: How to change change add-on behaviour, using nvram variables

Interesting. Ya seems odd that enabling an add-on causes the IP address to disappear until a reset is performed. AT least thats what I'm seeing. However it's not great solution if you have to resetup everything from scratch again. Unless you have a saved config file on hand.

 

[kamoj]

Yes, of course.
But be aware that these routers are gifted with at least 3 different "names" ...

• Device List
• Address Reservation
• Access Control

@kamoj,

Is there a way to list as well networks identification and in output replace MAC addresses with names? Something like:
###2.4G###
host_a 52Mbps -59dBm
host_b 114Mbps -79dBm
host_c 70Mbps -63dBm

###5G###
host_d 845Mbps -63dBm

###2.4G Guest###
host_e 70Mbps -63dBm
host_f 1Mbps -71dBm

 

[percy3]

I think it's easier to uninstall the add-on then "resetup everything from scratch again".

If you really want to help, please try isolate the problem by disabling add-on functions, one-by one.
See first posting:
Spoiler: How to change change add-on behaviour, using nvram variables

Talking about issues... Have no the slightest idea whether it has anything to do with add-on but enabling LAN/WAN packet capture from debug screen (I've tested so far to memory) is causing high CPU utilization rendering system unusable and after some time router restarts.
Maybe someone will have the chance to check without add-on or on different FW (I'm on .61SF). Steps to reproduce:
1. Enable LAN/WAN Packet Capture on debug page leaving capture to system memory
2. Press Start Capture button
3. Go to https://www.routerlogin.net/adv_index.htm page

 

[kamoj]

So why do you post this in this thread?
I suggest you either make sure it is because of the add-on or find/start another thread.
That way you can reach many more viewers/helpers.

... Have no the slightest idea whether it has anything to do with add-on but

 

[e38BimmerFN]

I believe the issue is surrounding the process of installing the add-on at install time and or reboot time after add-on is inststall. Again, the R7800 has a stable IP address, while in bridge mode and BEFORE adding the add-on. The DCHP IP address disappeared after doing the reboot from the telnet window after installing the add-on. The R7800 rebooted back to ready, giving Internet access, however the R7800 DCHP IP address was no longer accessible or seen on the network. The factory reset and reboot re-enabled the DCHP IP address and it was accessible.

I think it's easier to uninstall the add-on then "resetup everything from scratch again".

If you really want to help, please try isolate the problem by disabling add-on functions, one-by one.
See first posting:
Spoiler: How to change change add-on behaviour, using nvram variables

 

[kamoj]

There is a certain bug in Netgear stock firmware causing things to start in the wrong order at boot.
This bug e.g. makes some of Voxels openvpn-client optimizations to not have any effect unless you stop and start the client again.
The Netgear code is full of patches trying to fix problems with AP/Bridge mode.

Can you try run these commands after installing the add-on, and see if there is any change?

nvram set kamoj_no_show_idle=1
nvram commit
reboot

I believe the issue is surrounding the process of installing the add-on at install time and or reboot time after add-on is inststall. Again, the R7800 has a stable IP address, while in bridge mode and BEFORE adding the add-on. The DCHP IP address disappeared after doing the reboot from the telnet window after installing the add-on. The R7800 rebooted back to ready, giving Internet access, however the R7800 DCHP IP address was no longer accessible or seen on the network. The factory reset and reboot re-enabled the DCHP IP address and it was accessible.