Vantage

For OpenWrt 25.12 and 24.10

See what your router is doing.

Vantage is a theme for LuCI, OpenWrt's web interface, plus a dashboard that opens when you log in: who's connected, how busy the uplink is, and what needs fixing. Every other LuCI page gets the same look.

Install from the signed repository Source on GitHub
  • Free software, GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Any target: architecture-independent
  • No CDNs or web fonts
The Vantage dashboard: six health cards (uplink, CPU, memory, Wi-Fi, signal, storage) with one flagging a weak client, the network path from the gateway through the access point to its radios and SSIDs, live throughput charts and radio cards

Recorded data from a real access point, pseudonymised: documentation addresses and MACs, neutral names.

What you get

Two packages. Installed on its own, the dashboard works under any LuCI theme; with both, it goes with the Vantage theme. The theme is useful without the dashboard.

  • Health at a glance

    Six checks: uplink, CPU, memory, Wi-Fi, client signal and storage. Each has its own icon, a one-line reason and a picture along its edge, and opens what it is about.

  • The network path, live

    Gateway, access point, radios and SSIDs, plus a Wired branch per port. Packets cross its grid with the live uplink rate; click any node for details.

  • Every client, by name

    Your alias, reverse DNS, mDNS, DHCP and WPS names or the vendor. Signal, link rate, Wi-Fi generation, live traffic and an experience score that says why. Wired devices too.

  • LuCI, restyled

    An icon rail, breadcrumbs and page tabs, a Ctrl+K palette over every page you can open, and light, dark or auto mode without a flash. Tables become cards on phones.

  • Read-only by design

    Apart from device names, which the router validates, the dashboard's permissions grant read methods only: no file.exec, and never Wi-Fi keys.

  • Small and self-contained

    System fonts and self-drawn icons; nothing loads from the internet unless you click Check for updates, so the UI works offline. Two architecture-independent packages for every target, from signed apk and opkg repositories.

Vantage in ten seconds

Open the video (10 seconds, no sound)

A closer look

Dark, light or auto

The mode is applied before the first paint, so pages never flash. The dashboard takes the theme's buttons, tabs, tables and status colours, so LuCI and the dashboard read as one product.

The dashboard in the other colour mode: health cards, the network path and live throughput

Every client, up close

Open a client for its experience score and the reason for it, signal history, link rates both ways, capabilities, traffic and retries. Rename the device in place.

The client inspector drawer open over the clients table, with an experience score, signal and throughput charts and link details

Every page, one keystroke away

Ctrl+K or / opens a palette with fuzzy search over every page you can open, each named with its place in the menu, and the Appearance choices too.

The command palette open over the dashboard, listing the Wireless pages that match a search

Room for a bigger network

Four radios, ten networks, 74 clients and six wired ports, each port with its live traffic, on one network path. Shown with the larger access point that the development replay generates.

The network path of a quad-radio access point: the gateway and access point on the left, four radios with ten SSIDs and their clients, and a Wired branch with six ports

Made for phones too

On a phone the rail becomes a bottom bar and sheet, controls grow for touch, tables turn into cards, and the clients list switches between Wi-Fi and Wired.

The dashboard on a phone: health cards in two columns, the clients list as cards and the bottom bar

LuCI's own pages, in the same style

Stock pages, forms, tables, charts and status icons; a table row's extra actions fold into a ⋯ menu, and tables become cards on phones.

LuCI's Status Overview page under the theme: system details, a memory bar and storage bars
Status → Overview
LuCI's Channel Analysis page under the theme: overlapping channel curves of neighbouring networks and their table
Status → Channel Analysis (the neighbouring networks are generated)

A login page of its own

A quiet card on the grid, with packets moving behind it, a starfield, or nothing, as picked under Appearance. The theme adds nothing about the device to it but the router's hostname as its heading.

The theme's login page: a login card on a dark grid with moving packet traces

Built to be trusted on your router

CI runs the tests and security checks on every push and pull request, and publishes a release only when its build matches the hashes I committed. The details are in the README and SECURITY.md.

  • Least privilege. The dashboard's ACL grants exactly the methods it calls. Reverse DNS and device names each sit in a group of their own, and no dashboard group grants uci writes.
  • No markup from data. Every element is built with LuCI's E() and text nodes; a check rejects innerHTML and other HTML sinks.
  • Reproducible packages. The same commit, SDK release and pinned image always give byte-identical packages, checked against the commit's source.
  • Signed repositories. apk and opkg check the index signature against the project key and each package against its hash.

Package repositories

Signed package repositories for Vantage, a LuCI theme and dashboard for OpenWrt 25.12 and 24.10. On the router, over SSH:

OpenWrt 25.12 apk

One-time setup on the router, then install and upgrade with apk:

key=$(mktemp) &&
wget -O "$key" https://anothadev.github.io/luci-theme-vantage/vantage-signing.pem &&
echo "c8a6c83eeb49ca2407932fb5e95785776128cef87db75ebaea0fe4171eee2157  $key" | sha256sum -c - &&
cp "$key" /etc/apk/keys/vantage-signing.pem &&
echo 'https://anothadev.github.io/luci-theme-vantage/25.12/packages.adb' >> /etc/apk/repositories.d/customfeeds.list &&
apk update &&
apk add luci-theme-vantage luci-app-vantage

Translations, where available, are separate packages: apk add luci-i18n-vantage-<lang> luci-i18n-vantage-theme-<lang> (for example zh-cn); choose the language under System → System → Language and Style.

OpenWrt 24.10 opkg

One-time setup on the router, then install and upgrade with opkg:

key=$(mktemp) &&
wget -O "$key" https://anothadev.github.io/luci-theme-vantage/vantage-24.10.usign.pub &&
echo "427da4a0b83a258f831f18b5408fd91101b8ac8d34a7d7a4011670d3b8c6d5ba  $key" | sha256sum -c - &&
opkg-key add "$key" &&
echo 'src/gz vantage https://anothadev.github.io/luci-theme-vantage/24.10' >> /etc/opkg/customfeeds.conf &&
opkg update &&
opkg install luci-theme-vantage luci-app-vantage

Translations: opkg install luci-i18n-vantage-<lang> luci-i18n-vantage-theme-<lang> (for example zh-cn).

Then log out of LuCI and back in; the dashboard is the first page after login. What changed in each release: CHANGELOG.md; the packages are also attached to the releases.

The commands stop before installing anything if a key doesn't match its hash. This page could be changed along with the keys, so first compare the hashes with the ones in the project's install guide on GitHub.