Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam 5AC 16 WA

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an+ac (AC13001R)
airMAX NanoBeam 5AC
Homepage	Product page
Wikipedia	Ubiquiti Networks
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Status Unknown
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam 5AC 16 WA
FCC ID	SWX-NBE5AC16
Type	access point
CPU1 Y	Atheros AR9342
CPU1 Type	MIPS 74Kc
CPU1 Speed	535 MHz
Flash1 Chip	Brand? Model?
Flash1 Size	16 MiB 16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br /> (SPI NOR)
RAM1 Size	64 MiB 67,108,864 B <br />524,288 Kib <br />65,536 KiB <br />512 Mib <br />0.0625 GiB <br /> (DDR2)
RAM1 Chip	Brand? Model?
ETH chip1	Atheros AR9342
ETH chip2	Atheros AR8035
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: none specified
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	none specified
Power	24 VDC, 0.5 A
Serial Port (UART)	yes, (115200 8N1)
JTAG Port	no
Flags: Outdoor
Other
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs)
Retail
Availability	End of Life
End of Life date	2017
Radio 1
Chip1	Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880
Wireless interface OUI	none specified
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n/ac
802.11ac	up to 1300 Mbps
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio1 chip2 brand Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam 5AC 16 WA Atheros Qualcomm Atheros Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam 5AC 19 XC Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam 5AC Gen 2 WA Atheros Atheros Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam 5AC Gen 2 XC Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam M2 Ubiquiti Networks NanoBeam M5 XW Atheros Atheros

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

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

• 1300 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11ac (80MHz chan.), = AC1300 class

Flashing

Flashing OpenWrt

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

Target: ath79
Subtarget: generic
Package architecture: mips_24kc
Supported Since Commit
Support started version: 19.07.0
Current supported version: 25.12.0

LAN Comment: AR8035 phy
WLAN Hardware: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880
Installation method(s):
U-Boot TFTP + serial recovery, see git-commit
Recovery method(s):
Ubiquiti TFTP, U-Boot TFTP recovery
Comment:
Some units come with a faulty LAN port from factory

git • >>

ath79: Add support for Ubiquiti NanoBeam AC The NanoBeam is a small AR9342 based directional 5 GHz AC CPE with hardware almost identical to the Ubiquiti NanoStation AC loco. Over the NanoStation AC loco it has 5 additional LEDs. Four of those LEDs are used as rssi indicators, the fifth LED is used as an ethernet link/activity indicator. CPU: Atheros AR9342 SoC RAM: 64 MB DDR2 Flash: 16 MB NOR SPI WLAN: QCA988X Ports: 1x GbE Flashing procedure is identical to the NanoStation AC loco and can be performed either via serial or the factory firmware upgrade. Serial flashing: 1. Connect to serial header on device (8N1 115200) 2. Power on device and enter uboot console 3. Set up tftp server serving an openwrt initramfs build 4. Load initramfs build using the command tftpboot in the uboot cli 5. Boot the loaded image using the command bootm 6. Copy squashfs openwrt sysupgrade build to the booted device 7. Use mtd to write sysupgrade to partition "firmware" 8. Reboot and enjoy Flashing through factory firmware: 1. Ensure firmware version v8.5.0.36727 is installed. Up/downgrade to this exact version. 2. Patch fwupdate.real binary using `hexdump -Cv /bin/ubntbox | sed 's/14 40 fe fe/00 00 00 00/g' | hexdump -R > /tmp/fwupdate.real` 3. Make the patched fwupdate.real binary executable using `chmod +x /tmp/fwupdate.real` 4. Copy the squashfs factory image to /tmp on the device 5. Flash OpenWRT using `/tmp/fwupdate.real -m <squashfs-factory image>` 6. Wait for the device to reboot