Ability to override a radio's frequency.

[bomkz]

My AP3825i's have two internal mPCIe Wi-Fi cards.

One card supports Wi-Fi 4 and 5 over 5GHz, the other supports Wi-Fi 1, 2, 3, 4 over 2.4 GHz, and 5 GHz.

Both default to 5GHz it seems, so even setting radio num to 2 in my device settings under OpenSOHO causes makes both radios appear as 5GHz.

radio0 Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880:

radio1 Qualcomm Atheros AR9590:

[hgot07]

I'd like to recommend introducing tick boxes like
☐ 2.4 GHz ☒ 5 GHz ☐ 6 GHz
that replaces or eliminates "numradios".
There are many deployment cases where we want to enable only 5 GHz band while 2.4 GHz band should be turned off to avoid congestion.

In addition, we often have situations in which 5 GHz band is configured with WPA2+optional PMF while 6 GHz band with WPA3 (always mandatory). If the same SSID is used for multiple bands including 6 GHz, this should be taken into account.

[hgot07]

Regarding the original comment, OpenSOHO should detect which radioN is for which band. Some devices use radio0 for 5 GHz.

[rubenbe]

Indeed, the order doesn't matter (I have an AP too where the first radio is 5Ghz and the second one is 2.4)
OpenSOHO can probably not see it is dual frequency (you can verify via ssh openwrt-ap netjson-monitoring --dump "*" | jq . . I suspect openwisp only reports the active frequency back. This really could use improvements, but for that I'll probably need to expand the openwisp-daemons. Something I really wanted to avoid.