🐾 Idefix Terminal — an ultimate terminal in your ASUS-Merlin GUI

[MegaMango]

Hello SNB Community,

After extensive testing and refinement, I am pleased to introduce Idefix Terminal—a browser-based console now available under Administration ▸ Idefix Terminal in your router’s web interface.

This project is hosted on the GitHub

Releases: https://github.com/DanielLavrushin/asuswrt-merlin-idefix/releases

What do i get?​

A real BusyBox/ash shell with colour, UTF-8 and scroll-back – no more juggling PuTTY. Works from any device: phone, tablet, even your TV’s browser.

Prerequisites​

* ASUS-WRT Merlin firmware (386 or 388)
* Entware (quickest route: run `amtm`, option `e`)

How to install​

Simply run this command:

wget -O /tmp/idefix-install.sh \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanielLavrushin/asuswrt-merlin-idefix/refs/heads/main/install.sh \
  && chmod 0755 /tmp/idefix-install.sh \
  && /tmp/idefix-install.sh \
  && rm /tmp/idefix-install.sh

to uninstall:

idefix uninstall

How to update/contriubute​

This is the first public release. It should run on most Broadcom & HND models but I only have an RT-BE88U to test on. If something breaks please open a GitHub issue or drop a note in this thread – log snippets, screenshots, anything helps.

As soon as I deploy a new release version you will get a modal window to porpose to update.
You always can check the latest changes in the bottom right corner of the screen clicking the version:

Any CLI?​

Oh yes, you can use the following CLI:
- idefix update - ubdate to latest version (it is possible to specify exact version, e.g. idefix update 1.1.4, usefull in a rollback cases)
- idefix start - start the idefix-server in a background
- idefix stop - stop all instances of the idefix server
- idefix uninstall - a complete uninsall process
- idefix remount_ui - helps to remount the gui menu

Issues​

- not able to connect under https (investigating)

 

[Ripshod]

What gives?

NVM, doesn't work over https.

 

[MegaMango]

What gives?
View attachment 65569
is all I get. Have you used default IPs rather than localhost - my main LAN is 10.0.0.0/27?

nice! First issue

Are you behind https?
what if you try to run the idefix-server manually?

first try to stop any instances:

idefix stop

then

/opt/share/idefix/idefix-server

then try to connect - it should catch to the console the response...

 

[Ripshod]

nice! First issue

Are you behind https?
what if you try to run the idefix-server manually?

first try to stop any instances:

idefix stop

then

/opt/share/idefix/idefix-server

then try to connect - it should catch to the console the response...

WebSocket PTY listening on :8787/ws

Then no further messages when trying to access in the GUI over https. Over http it's fine.

 

[MegaMango]

WebSocket PTY listening on :8787/ws

Then no further messages when trying to access in the GUI over Https. HTTP it's fine.

okay, that might be an issue with https, I will investigate this!