Banana Pi has announced the OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY router board with 1GB of DDR4 RAM, saying it created the product with OpenWrt and MediaTek. The board uses MediaTek’s MT7981B, also called Filogic 820, and the MT7976C dual-band WiFi 6 chipset.
Banana Pi said in a post on X that the three organizations cooperated on the router. Its product page describes the device as an official OpenWrt board and says Banana Pi will manufacture and distribute it.
The project pairs a router board with OpenWrt, the Linux-based, package-managed operating system used on routers and embedded devices from many manufacturers. For each device sold, Banana Pi says a donation will go to the Software Freedom Conservancy with the money earmarked for OpenWrt.
The hardware includes 256MB of SPI NAND flash and 16MB of SPI NOR flash. It has one 2.5GbE port, one Gigabit Ethernet port, an M.2 NVMe SSD socket using PCIe Gen 2 x1, USB 2.0 Type-A and USB Type-C ports, PoE support and a MikroBUS expansion socket.
Banana Pi is a line of open-source single-board computers made by Shenzhen SINOVOIP Co., Ltd. The first model shipped on April 29, 2014, as an alternative to Raspberry Pi for uses including computing, routing, IoT and education.
The AP-24.XY follows the original OpenWrt One, which Banana Pi and the Software Freedom Conservancy jointly launched on November 29, 2024. That router used the same MT7981B SoC and MT7976C WiFi chipset, sold for $89, and directed $10 from each sale to OpenWrt’s Conservancy fund.
