Josh4300:

Supply the following if possible:

• Device problem occurs on

Model: TP-Link TL-WDR4300 (IL) v1
hw:43008001 00000001

• Software versions of OpenWrt/LEDE release, packages, etc.

openwrt-19.07.0-rc2-ath79-generic-tplink_tl-wdr4300-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin

• Steps to reproduce

try to sysupgrade to openwrt image above, from gui.

received error message:
cat: write error: Broken pipe cat: write error: Broken pipe
Invalid image, hardware ID mismatch,
hw:43008001 00000001
image:43000001 00000001.
Image check failed.

additional info:
i tested the following images:

• works - openwrt-18.06.5-ar71xx-generic-tl-wdr4300-v1-il-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
• works (ar71xx) - openwrt-19.07.0-rc2-ar71xx-generic-tl-wdr4300-v1-il-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
• fails (ath79) - openwrt-19.07.0-rc2-ath79-generic-tplink_tl-wdr4300-v1-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
  hardware ID mismatch

it seems there is needs to be a special build for wdr4300-v1-il il,
it exists for ar71xx

question: which image should be used for ath79 / ISRAEL hardware version?
hw:43008001 00000001

references:

patch for v1 il:
https://www.mail-archive.com/openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org/msg17574.html

discussion of patch:
https://www.mail-archive.com/openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org/msg17573.html

"The hardware-ID is different for TL-WDR4300v1 devices sold in Israel."

wiki:
"Devices that require the Israeli firmware will show a warning on the Firmware Update page. If you see this warning, fallback to the “-il-” image. The Israeli firmware differs only in the Hardware ID, in order to enable flashing from the original firmware interface. There is no difference between the images otherwise."

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wdr4300