Script/addon support with Asus's UI4/Asuswrt6

[RMerlin]

Hi everyone,

3006.102.6 includes the GT-BE19000AI, the first model that uses the new UI, and also a newer Asuswrt codebase. There will be most likely a few scripts that will need to be updated for these. I am creating this thread to gather any user feedback in one single location to better help developers adjust.

UI4:
This is a new white-themed UI. The main pages are based on Bootstrap, and a wrapper is applied to handle the traditionnal settings pages. Some colours are changed on-the-fly (like the hint-color CSS class, or some specific colour). Anything generated at load time won't be - only the actual content outside of the "script" block will be.

New codebase:
A few notable changes:

• Uses OpenSSL 3.0 instead of 1.1.1
• EasyRSA3 replaces EasyRSA2
• Adaptive QoS (Trend Micro bwdpi) replaced with Adaptive QoE (ARK)

These are those I can think of, off the top of my head.

At this time I don't know what Asus' plans are for other other models (regarding either UI4 or the OpenSSL 3.x upgrade).

 

[Tarek Yag]

First, thank you for giving us all the updates as soon as they're available.

Adaptive QoS (Trend Micro bwdpi) replaced with Adaptive QoE (ARK)

A question just popped into my mind, did they replace using Trend Micro's (bwdpi) only? I mean are they still using Trend Micro's other modules and addons/features?
Just wondering if there's a shift in their bigger plans.

 

[RMerlin]

First, thank you for giving us all the updates as soon as they're available.


A question just popped into my mind, did they replace using Trend Micro's (bwdpi) only? I mean are they still using Trend Micro's other modules and addons/features?
Just wondering if there's a shift in their bigger plans.

BWDPI is still being used by other features, like AiProtection. This shouldn't affect addon devs, AFAIK AdaptiveQoS was the only thing they interfaced with (in FlexQOS's case).

The RT-BE58_Go completely replaced BWDPI with HNS (so that`s another thing to be aware of, FlexQoS for instance won't work with it), which is another (newer) product from TrendMicro. No idea what their plans are for future devices.

 

[Tarek Yag]

The RT-BE58_Go completely replaced BWDPI with HNS (so that`s another thing to be aware of, FlexQoS for instance won't work with it), which is another (newer) product from TrendMicro. No idea what their plans are for future devices.

By reading your precise answer, I think you already read my mind and what's behind my question.
I was wondering if this move was about shifting to use another provider services. But since HNS is another/newer product from TrendMicro, then I guess they're just upgrading things.

Thank you for the information!

 

[RMerlin]

By reading your precise answer, I think you already read my mind and what's behind my question.
I was wondering if this move was about shifting to use another provider services. But since HNS is another/newer product from TrendMicro, then I guess they're just upgrading things.

Thank you for the information!

HNS does not seem to be a complete replacement for bwdpi, so maybe the future will involve multiple engines covering separate features. We'll have to see. The RT-BE58_Go is not a reference because it's a slightly lower end model (it only supports a few Trend Micro features - for instance it lacks Malicious Website blocking). And the GT-BE19000AI might possibly be an exception as well in its use of ARK.