- Flashing QWRT Firmware
JD Cloud AX1800 PRO Arthur's latest firmware R4015, flashing QWRT openwrt with the 5.4 kernel from the great eagle.
After flashing uboot, unplug the router's power plug to power off the router, then power on the router while holding down the reset button, and release the reset button when the router indicator light turns blue (approximately 5 seconds or more, depending on the indicator light status).
Connect the computer to the router's LAN port with an Ethernet cable, and reset the computer's IP address to 192.168.1.6 (the last digit can be any number) using the method below, then click "OK".
Then click "OK" again. If you forget to click the "OK" button below and the changes are not applied, you will not be able to enter the uboot interface.
Then enter 192.168.1.1 in the browser to open the uboot interface, and then select the QWRT firmware for upload.
There should be several versions of QWRT firmware, but because my JD Cloud Wireless Treasure is not partitioned for testing various firmware versions, I can only flash versions below 60M.
After selecting the QWRT firmware, click "Update Firmware" and wait for the update to complete to finish the flashing process.
Change the computer to obtain an IP address automatically and click "OK".
Don't forget to click the "OK" button below as well.
Keep the computer connected to the router's LAN port via an Ethernet cable, and open the qwrt login page by entering 192.168.1.1 in the computer's browser.
Enter the username "root" and password "password" to log in.
- Expanding Overlay Space
As mentioned earlier, my JD Cloud Wireless Treasure Arthur does not have a large partition, so after installing the firmware, there is only a few megabytes of remaining space, which is not enough to install Thunder, so we need to expand it. This time, we will use the log partition P25 (300M in size) in the JD Cloud Wireless Treasure's original firmware partition as the space for installing software, and keep P27 as the storage area for downloaded data. Of course, you can also use a USB 3.0 hard drive as the storage area for downloaded data.
- Login to the ttyd terminal
Enter the username "root" and the default password "password" to log in, and you can enter "df -h" to confirm the current overlay size.
- Command line operation
Enter the following commands in the terminal and press Enter to unmount the P25 partition:
umount /dev/mmcblk0p25
Enter the following command and press Enter to format the P25 partition:
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/mmcblk0p25
Enter the following command and press Enter to manually mount P25:
mount /dev/mmcblk0p25 /mnt/mmcblk0p25
Enter the following command and press Enter to copy the overlay partition files to the P25 partition:
cp -r /overlay/* /mnt/mmcblk0p25
Enter the following command and press Enter to check if the copy was successful. Enter the command below and press Enter to see the "lost+found", "upper", and "work" folders, indicating that the copy was successful.
ls /mnt/mmcblk0p25
Then enter the following command and press Enter to generate the mount file:
block detect > /etc/config/fstab
Enter the following command and press Enter to mount the p25 partition to overlay:
sed -i s#/mnt/mmcblk0p25#/overlay# /etc/config/fstab
Finally, enter the following command and press Enter to unmount the original overlay (the image below is missing this step, but please be aware that this step should be executed in practice):
sed -i '12s/1/0/g' /etc/config/fstab
Finally, enter "reboot" and press Enter to restart.
- Restart confirmation
Just like before, log in to the ttyd terminal and enter "df -h" to check the mounting status. We can see that the mounting was successful.
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Installing NAS Thunder
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Download the NAS Thunder installation package
Download the Thunder installation package from the GitHub website or ask me for it, and download the three files circled in the image below.
- Upload the files to the router
Open the WinSCP software on your computer, enter the following account information to log in to the router, and then select the three Thunder files you just downloaded and upload them to the /tmp/tmp directory on the router.
- Install Thunder
Go back to the router page and the ttyd terminal.
Enter the following command and press Enter to switch to the /tmp/tmp directory:
cd /tmp/tmp
Then enter the following command and press Enter to check if the upload was successful:
ls
We can see the three files that were just uploaded. Then enter the following commands one by one and press Enter to install:
opkg install xunlei_3.11.2-32_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipk
opkg install luci-app-xunlei_1.0.1-8-1_all.ipk
opkg install luci-i18n-xunlei-zh-cn_1.0.1-8-1_all.ipk
- Configure and start Thunder
After the installation is complete, go back to the router interface and find "Network Storage" -> "Thunder" and click to open Thunder.
Set your login account, password, and download storage path according to the image below, and then click "Save & Apply".
After successful startup, click "Open Web Interface" and then enter the account and password you just set (not the Thunder account password) to log in to the NAS Thunder interface. The first time you log in, you will be prompted to log in to your Thunder account. Use the QR code in the Thunder app on your phone to log in, and then you will be prompted to enter the Thunder internal test invitation code for Synology. Just enter "迅雷牛通" (Thunder Bull) to complete the binding with the Thunder Android app. After successful binding, the "Remote Device" icon will appear at the top of the home page.
- Experience downloading
On the home page of the Thunder app on your phone, search for resources, click on the download link, and then select the remote device. The download speed of Thunder is always reliable.
- LAN Sharing
When we want to watch a movie before leaving work, after downloading it to the JD Cloud Wireless Treasure hard drive using NAS Thunder, we can directly access the resources in the JD Cloud Wireless Treasure QWRT hard drive on the TV screen at home, without the need to copy it to the TV using a USB flash drive.
- Network sharing settings
Go back to the router's "Network Storage" -> "Network Sharing" and add the path where Thunder downloads to share it with devices on the local network.
- Access from a computer
Press the Windows key + R key on your computer to open the Run dialog, enter the router's IP address, and click "OK" to open the QWRT share. Click on the "xunlei" directory to open the resources downloaded by Thunder.