Openwrt modem software and BT Youview TV

[Jonnyp1]

I am becoming increasingly annoyed with BT. I was sold BT sports on BT Tv through pressure selling without being asked what router I was using. After putting a help request into BT I had a call from an engineer saying I had to enable IGMP as BT tv uses multicast. He even admitted to usind a 3rd party router but could not help me. I have spent weeks researching and trying to teach myself  new skills (unsuccesfully). I have a Linksys WRT3200acm which I have flashed with OpenWRT 19.07 as I believe through research that was the more likely firmware to work - unfortunately I can't  make it happen as my skills are not up to it. Can anyone help me please before I cancel my subscription and get something else?

[TimCurtis]

@Jonnyp1 

The Linksys documentation is not very informative but I've found a couple of links that might help:-

https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=135006

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1093728&sid=cbf56d44a5af94c5d091ae40abe5a34d

Doing a search on "Linksys WRT3200 igmp" will throw up some more probably.

BT supplied equipment will obviously work with their susbcription services as will some other modem/routers but not all will but it does seem that yours may well work with either standard firmware or OpenWRT but getting more help might prove difficult.

[Jonnyp1]

Thanks for your input @TimCurtis . Unfortunately I tried these solutions a while ago.  The closest I have been was to  put the Youview box on a subnet which got a different IPC error but seemed like progress. Unfortunately the rest of the house lost connection, I got shouted at and had to install a backup!

[Jonnyp1]

ok I have got a little closer by installing DD-WRT and following this installation guide https://ivanov-audio.com/bt-internet-3rd-party-routers/

I can get the channel line up channel to play but seem to lose all internet connection and get the error IPC6011.

Does anyone know how I bridge the 'bro' interface with my lan? I don't use the wifi of the router as I have linksys velop's attached inbridge mode.

Thanks