have now also upgraded gateway with mostly success

Author: spacelama

hosts.yml

@@ -487,6 +487,8 @@ all:
           openwrt_router_packages: true
           inet_addr_suffix: 254
 
+          firmware_image: vm/openwrt-24.10.1-x86-64-generic-squashfs-combined-efi.img.gz
+
           packages_to_install: 'qemu-ga,pciutils'
         b1300:
           deprecated: true
@@ -564,6 +566,8 @@ all:
           openwrt_heavy_installation: true
           inet_addr_suffix: 245
 
+          firmware_image: vm/openwrt-24.10.1-x86-64-generic-squashfs-combined-efi.img.gz
+
           packages_to_install: 'qemu-ga,pciutils,kmod-mt7921-firmware,kmod-mt7921u'
 
           # mode_5ghz: AC

roles/openwrt/tasks/main.yml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   block:
     - name: install router packages
       opkg:
-        name: luci-app-sqm,avahi-dbus-daemon,adblock,luci-app-adblock,msmtp,ethtool,arp-scan,ifstat,bind-dig,darkstat,luci-app-nlbwmon,luci-app-statistics,vnstat,vnstati,luci-app-vnstat,ip-bridge,bridge # ip-bridge is for `bridge vlan` command, bridge gives more complete control of brctl
+        name: luci-app-sqm,avahi-dbus-daemon,adblock,luci-app-adblock,msmtp,ethtool,arp-scan,ifstat,bind-dig,darkstat,luci-app-nlbwmon,luci-app-statistics,vnstat,vnstati,ip-bridge,bridge # ip-bridge is for `bridge vlan` command, bridge gives more complete control of brctl
         # instead of port mirroring, perhaps we can configure ecowitt mirroring of port 8000->homeassistant:4199 via port forwards ,port-mirroring
         state: present
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
       opkg:
         # kmod-tcp-bbr was on b1300 prior to 21.02.1 upgrade - no idea how
         # it got there
-        name: luci-app-banip
+        name: luci-app-vnstat,luci-app-banip
         state: present
       ignore_errors: true