Mender Client Support for Nano Pi R5C runnnig friendlyWRT!

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Hello All,

I am planning to use mender client’s update module feature to update few config files, scripts and py files in my nano pi.

So th idea is, multiple nano pis will be deployed at various locations. I would like to provide updates to the scripts and py files for a selected group of nano pi’s alone!

After good research, i figured mender clients’s update module feauture!

But the problem is, i am not able to build mender client for arm v8 (aarch64) for friendlyWRT wihtout the necessary packages needed by mender client build. I tried the cross compilation menthodon a ubuntu os!

Is it possble to build mender client for nano pi r5c running friendlywrt!

My goal is never to update the entire firmware, so I am not in need of yocto layers!

Please help me!

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Hi @yaswanthsk04,

Yeah you should definitely be able to solve that requirement with Mender. If you only need a custom Update Module for dropping some files, then yes, the integration is probably quite easy.

I’m not aware of any current efforts in OpenWRT or a derivative though. So the best guess is probably to look at the buildroot-mender repository, and extract the recipes for cross compilation, then implant them into your FriendlyWRT build.

Greetz,
Josef