olivluca

@Aapo Tahkola thank you, but the orangepi 5 is way over budget. The appeal of a tvbox is to spend 20€ for something that includes a box and a power supply. For much less than the price of the orange pi 5 I could get an AP with proper openwrt support.

Thank you @jock the Radxa Pi-e board is interesting, but if you add a case and shipping it would at least double or triple the price of a tv-box shipped. Of course it is better to spend more money once instead of buying something cheap that you have to throw in the trash, but I really like cheap things (provided they work well enough 😅). I'll keep thinking about it.

Is it a really stupid idea to buy one of these boxes, install armbian+raspap (or openwrt) and use it as a travel router/access point (I need both 2.4 and 5GHz)? Most cheap routers (i.e. at the same price point of a tv-box) with openwrt support have no usb port (I need one for tethering with an android phone). OTOH tv-boxes have flaky wifi, but I have several usb wifi sticks that I could use (though I'd prefer to use the integrated wifi if at all possible, at least for one of the bands). If it's really stupid (and the first message of the threads seems to imply so) I'll go back to my cave, but if it isn't, what's the most suitable box?