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The Turris Omnia is canonically the "OpenWRT" router even though it isn't from OpenWRT itself: https://www.turris.com/en/omnia/overview/

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I use a Beryl as a travel router (connects to Hotel or Plane Wifi, you authenticate the captive portal, then it creates a separate wifi network and opens a VPN tunnel). It's such a great little device for less than $100 and allows me to keep things a bit more secure, avoid config for each device, and on planes it allows us to split a higher capacity plan. All OpenWRT

While this and other GL.iNet devices use OpenWRT (with their own custom UI/frontend), they don't contribute to the OpenWRT project in terms of code or funding, many of their devices are incompatible with mainline OpenWRT releases, and software updates are few and far between.

I have one of these myself, they're handy devices, but I wouldn't go and recommend them as good OpenWRT devices.

I would love to buy into OpenWRT but I need a mesh router due to the size of my house. Do you know of the recommended hardware? I couldn't find anything the last time I searched a year or two ago

Yes! The GL-iNet B1300 is a cheap, powerful 802.11ac mesh router that is fully supported by OpenWRT: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-b1300/

It is also the platform I personally use for OpenWRT development work.

I'm stunned that it's something that unavailable and expensive.

I'd expect it to be some mass-produced cheap router.

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