EnGenius EMR3500

abgn+ac (AC1300)
AC1300D Dual-Band Mesh Router
Homepage	Product page
WikiDevi.wi-cat.ru	EnGenius EMR3500
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Was Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	EnGenius EMR3500
FCC ID	A8J-EMR3500
Board ID	7016A1736014
Type	wireless router, mesh node
CPU1 Y	Qualcomm IPQ4018
CPU1 Type	ARMv7 Cortex-A7
CPU1 Speed	717 MHz ( 4 cores )
Flash1 Chip	Brand? Model?
Flash1 Size	128 MiB 134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	256 MiB 268,435,456 B <br />2,097,152 Kib <br />262,144 KiB <br />2,048 Mib <br />0.25 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	Nanya NT5CC128M16JR-EK
ETH chip1	Qualcomm IPQ4018
Switch	Qualcomm Atheros QCA8072
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-WAN 1-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	USB 2.0
USB ports	1
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	12 VDC, 1 A
Connector type	barrel
Flags: Wave2, MU-MIMO, 256QAM
Other
Default SSID: ESRetupXXXXXX (1 addl. devices)
Manuf/OEM/ODM	Senao
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt (Was)
Retail
Availability	End of Life
FCC approval date	27 March 2019
(Est.) release date	April 2019
Country of manuf	Taiwan
Radio 1
Chip1	Qualcomm IPQ4018
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
Radio 2
Chip1	Qualcomm IPQ4018
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	2x2:2
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac	up to 867 Mbps
802.11n	up to 300 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
FCC ID EnGenius ESR530 A8J-EMR3500

For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm.
For a list of all currently documented Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Qualcomm Atheros.

For a list of all currently documented EnGenius devices with specifications, see EnGenius.

• 400 Mbps - 2SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan., 256-QAM),

• 867 Mbps - 2SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.) = AC1300 class

Overview

"7016A1736014 Ver-1.10 LFP" is silkscreened on the board in the FCC photos.

The EnGenius ESR530 is electrically identical.

Links of Interest

News

• EnGenius Announces $100 Wi-Fi Mesh System on SNBforums

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki

Target: ipq40xx
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: arm_cortex-a7_neon-vfpv4
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 21.02.0
Current supported version: EOL
Last Supported Version: 21.02.7

Unsupported Functions:
Final release 21.02.7
LAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8072
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros IPQ4018
Installation method(s):
GUI OEM
Recovery method(s):
U-Boot TFTP recovery, see git-commit
Comment:
Missing DSA Setup for 23.05+

git • >>

ipq40xx: add support for EnGenius EMR3500 SOC: IPQ4018 / QCA Dakota CPU: Quad-Core ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) Cortex-A7 DRAM: 256 MiB NOR: 32 MiB ETH: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8072 (2 ports) USB: 1 x 2.0 (Host controller in the SoC) WLAN1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4018 2.4GHz 802.11bgn 2:2x2 WLAN2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA4018 5GHz 802.11a/n/ac 2:2x2 INPUT: RESET Button LEDS: White, Blue, Red, Orange Flash instruction: From EnGenius firmware to OpenWrt firmware: In Firmware Upgrade page, upgrade your openwrt-ipq40xx-generic-engenius_emr3500-squashfs-factory.bin directly. From OpenWrt firmware to EnGenius firmware: 1. Setup a TFTP server on your computer and configure static IP to 192.168.99.8 Put the EnGenius firmware in the TFTP server directory on your computer. 2. Power up EMR3500. Press 4 and then press any key to enter u-boot. 3. Download EnGenius firmware (IPQ40xx) # tftpboot 0x84000000 openwrt-ipq40xx-emr3500-nor-fw-s.img 4. Flash the firmware (IPQ40xx) # imgaddr=0x84000000 && source 0x84000000:script 5. Reboot (IPQ40xx) # reset