Frequently asked questions about Turris Omnia NG⚓︎

Why 90W power source, is Omnia NG power hungry?⚓︎

Turris Omnia NG comes with a 90W power source. But the real power consumption is typically much less. With all three Wi-Fis enabled, it is typically around 10W. But we ship our devices with a power source strong enough to handle all possible loads. And Omnia NG can be extended with quite some power-hungry peripherals. Think about two 10Gbit Ethernet SFP modules, a 5G modem or NVMe. Not to mention all the possible devices that you can connect to the USB ports. We choose to ship the power supply strong enough to handle all those cases and still have some breathing space.

Why only 8GB eMMC? I need more storage!⚓︎

Omnia NG comes with an 8GB irreplaceable eMMC. It is and will be for the foreseeable future enough for Turris OS and should be good enough for most of our users. If you need more space or faster storage, you can easily place an NVMe drive in one of the M.2 slots. Omnia NG can even boot directly from it.

Why only 2GB of RAM?⚓︎

Although we would like to have more breathing space as well, 2GB are the best we could reasonably do. Our platform of choice uses a 32-bit memory controller and is thus very limited in this regard. Unfortunately, at the time of design, there was no other SoC available that would offer comparable network performance, support more RAM and still would fall into the same price-point ballpark. And from the routing perspective, it is more than enough.

Why does Omnia NG have soldered in 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi?⚓︎

We wanted to provide support for all three bands (2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz); there are only so many PCIe lanes, and there is no tri-band tri-concurrent Wi-Fi card. In Omnia, we solved it by picking two mPCIe slots for Wi-Fi and depending on whether you needed SSD or LTE, you shuffled the cards around.

Unfortunately, with moving to M.2, those slots have specific keys, making the shuffling of the cards impossible. Luckily, our SoC of choice provided an option to add a 2.4GHz radio that doesn’t occupy any PCIe lane. And on top of that, the extra costs of this radio were negligible.

That is why we opted for it. Once tri-band tri-concurrent Wi-Fi 8 cards come out, you can disable the 2.4GHz onboard card and you can still replace the Wi-Fi 7 (pricey) card.

My display is broken, it keeps turning off⚓︎

There is a screen saver mode enabled by default on the display. The display has a limited lifetime. It is more than the warranty period, so we could keep it on all the time. But we expect our devices to last much longer than our warranty period. So we choose to turn it off when you are not using it. You can wake it up with a press of a button.

I’m missing two screws on each side of my Omnia NG⚓︎

There are two spare holes on the sides of every Turris Omnia NG case. Those are there intentionally. Those are meant to be used for a rack mount kit, which is going to be sold separately.

LEDs are too bright, how do I tune them down?⚓︎

In the default setup, you can decrease the brightness of the LEDs by pressing the button on the back of your Turris Omnia NG. Not the reset button, the other one.

My SFP/Wi-Fi card/USB dongle worked on Omnia but doesn’t work on NG!⚓︎

When we do the initial support for the device, we make sure that everything shipped with the device work. But it might take some extra time to integrate all the backports and fixes we did for our other devices.