What hardware would you recommend for AP’s and dedicated Firewalls? I really value open-source so bonus points if it works without blobs or the hardware is open or has available schematics.
Altough a bit expensive I have looked at Protectli firewalls as an option as the option to run OPNsense and coreboot is attractive.
For an AP, the Banana PI BPI-R3 (R4 if I’m patient) sounds interesting being open hardware and supporting OpenWRT. I am however curious on if it would run on LibreCMC.
A $70 box off ebay will run opnsense quite well. Put in a cheap network card for the extra ports.
For APs you can buy routers that are supported by OpenWRT and flash them, I doubt a BPI-R3 would have acceptable performance as an AP.