The Ubiquiti PowerBeam 5AC 500 (PBE-5AC-500) is an outdoor 802.11ac
5 GHz bridge with a radio feed and a dish antenna.
Specifications:
- SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9558
- RAM: 128 MB DDR2
- Flash: 16 MB SPI NOR (mx25l12805d)
- Ethernet: 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps Atheros 8031, 24 Vdc PoE-in
- WiFi 5 GHz: QCA988x HW2.0 Ubiquiti target 0x4100016c chip_id 0x043222ff
- Buttons: 1x (reset)
- LEDs: 1x power, 1x Ethernet, 4x RSSI, all blue
- UART: not tested
Not supported:
- RSSI LEDs (probably through 74HC595 chip)
Installation from stock airOS firmware:
- Follow instructions for XC-type Ubiquiti devices on OpenWrt wiki at
https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/common
Signed-off-by: Roger Pueyo Centelles <[email protected]>
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/dts-v1/;
+
+#include "qca955x_ubnt_xc.dtsi"
+
+/ {
+ compatible = "ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-500", "ubnt,xc", "qca,qca9558";
+ model = "Ubiquiti PowerBeam 5AC 500";
+
+ keys {
+ compatible = "gpio-keys";
+
+ reset {
+ label = "Reset button";
+ linux,code = <KEY_RESTART>;
+ gpios = <&gpio 19 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+ debounce-interval = <60>;
+ };
+ };
+};
+
+&mdio0 {
+ status = "okay";
+
+ phy-mask = <4>;
+ phy4: ethernet-phy@4 {
+ phy-mode = "sgmii";
+ reg = <4>;
+ at803x-override-sgmii-link-check;
+ };
+};
+
+ð0 {
+ status = "okay";
+
+ mtd-mac-address = <&art 0x0>;
+ phy-mode = "sgmii";
+ phy-handle = <&phy4>;
+};
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
+#include <dt-bindings/input/input.h>
+
+#include "qca955x.dtsi"
+
+/ {
+ chosen {
+ bootargs = "console=ttyS0,115200n8";
+ };
+};
+
+&uart {
+ status = "okay";
+};
+
+&pcie0 {
+ status = "okay";
+};
+
+&spi {
+ status = "okay";
+ num-cs = <1>;
+
+ flash@0 {
+ compatible = "jedec,spi-nor";
+ reg = <0>;
+ spi-max-frequency = <25000000>;
+
+ partitions {
+ compatible = "fixed-partitions";
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ partition@0 {
+ label = "u-boot";
+ reg = <0x000000 0x040000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ partition@40000 {
+ label = "u-boot-env";
+ reg = <0x040000 0x010000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ partition@50000 {
+ compatible = "denx,uimage";
+ label = "firmware";
+ reg = <0x050000 0xf60000>;
+ };
+
+ partition@fb0000 {
+ label = "cfg";
+ reg = <0xfb0000 0x040000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+
+ art: partition@ff0000 {
+ label = "art";
+ reg = <0xff0000 0x010000>;
+ read-only;
+ };
+ };
+ };
+};
ubnt,nanostation-loco-m|\
ubnt,nanostation-loco-m-xw|\
ubnt,picostation-m|\
+ ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-500|\
ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-gen2|\
ubnt,rocket-m|\
ubnt,unifiac-lite|\
label_mac=$(cat /sys/class/ieee80211/phy0/macaddress)
;;
ubnt,litebeam-ac-gen2|\
+ ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-500|\
ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-gen2)
label_mac=$(mtd_get_mac_binary art 0x5006)
;;
ubnt,nanobeam-ac|\
ubnt,nanostation-ac|\
ubnt,nanostation-ac-loco|\
+ ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-500|\
ubnt,powerbeam-5ac-gen2|\
ubnt,unifiac-pro|\
yuncore,a770)
UBNT_VERSION := 8.5.0
endef
+define Device/ubnt-xc
+ $(Device/ubnt)
+ IMAGE_SIZE := 15744k
+ UBNT_BOARD := XC
+ UBNT_CHIP := qca955x
+ UBNT_TYPE := XC
+ UBNT_VERSION := 8.5.0
+endef
+
define Device/ubnt-xm
$(Device/ubnt)
DEVICE_VARIANT := XM
endef
TARGET_DEVICES += ubnt_picostation-m
+define Device/ubnt_powerbeam-5ac-500
+ $(Device/ubnt-xc)
+ SOC := qca9558
+ DEVICE_MODEL := PowerBeam 5AC
+ DEVICE_VARIANT := 500
+ DEVICE_PACKAGES := kmod-ath10k-ct ath10k-firmware-qca988x-ct
+endef
+TARGET_DEVICES += ubnt_powerbeam-5ac-500
+
define Device/ubnt_powerbeam-5ac-gen2
$(Device/ubnt-wa)
DEVICE_MODEL := PowerBeam 5AC