LuCI Interface

The project provides an optional LuCI web interface for managing Tailscale through the OpenWrt admin panel.

Features

The LuCI app is organized into four tabs:

Status

• View Tailscale daemon status (running / stopped)
• Current network mode (TUN / Userspace)
• Connected device list

Configuration

• Toggle service enable/disable
• Change networking mode
• Configure proxy listen address
• Modify download source

Maintenance

• Install or update Tailscale
• Switch versions
• Enable/disable binary auto-updates
• Manually update the management script and LuCI interface
• Sync runtime scripts
• Uninstall Tailscale

Logs

• View manager logs (/var/log/tailscale-manager.log)
• View service logs (/var/log/tailscale.log)

Installation

The LuCI interface is optional. The first tailscale-manager install keeps it disabled by default. It requires:

• LuCI (included in most OpenWrt firmware)
• rpcd (for RPC communication)

Install it after the CLI setup:

tailscale-manager luci install

Or include it in a non-interactive install:

tailscale-manager install --yes --luci 1

Check or remove the UI:

tailscale-manager luci status
tailscale-manager luci remove

tailscale-manager self-update refreshes LuCI files on devices where LuCI is installed or luci_enabled=1 is set in UCI.

Low-memory devices

The Status page can call tailscale status --json through rpcd. Routers with only a few dozen MB of RAM can run out of memory during that query. Use CLI commands on very low-memory devices.

Accessing

After installation, navigate to Services → Tailscale in the LuCI web interface.

TIP

After installing or updating the LuCI app, you may need to clear your browser cache or restart rpcd:

/etc/init.d/rpcd restart