Warning: This can brick your router. Goes without saying, I will not take responsibility for whatever havoc you wreak. You have been warned. If you use your router for internet access, tt’s best to have an alternative method of getting online. You have been warned!

I have a Meraki mini I’ve been playing around with. I’m running OpenWRT Kamikaze 7.06 on it and I love it. It’s very flexible piece of hardware and comes with an 8mb flash and 32mb of RAM, which is more than enough for the stuff I run on it. The only annoying thing is the lack of a web interface. It’s not that I have problems with using the terminal; it’s just that, it becomes annoying to switch on my desktop just to attend to a minor detail. Or I’m downstairs in a friend’s room and just need to check if my internet connection is alive. A web interface would allow me do all that from a browser as long as I was connected to the network.
Thankfuly there’s the Webif frontend by X-WRT . From what I’ve seen so far, it’s quite good though it’s still beta. It does everything I want it to do so I can’t complain.

Installing
You first need to install the haserl package, which webif depends on.Telnet or SSH into your router and enter the following:

ipkg update

This updates your package list

ipkg install haserl

Installs haserl which allows you to embed shell scripts in html.

ipkg install http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaze/7.06/atheros-2.6/webif_latest.ipk

Download and install webif from the x-wrt.org site since webif is not yet in the kamikaze repository

Note: the webif install will reboot your router!!

Once the router is back up, open up a browser of your choice and enter your router’s ip address. Voila