Apple Time Capsule Custom Firmware May 2026

The internal SATA hard drive is directly connected to the SoC (System on Chip). With custom firmware, you have full control:

To use the custom firmware for its original purpose (Time Machine), you must install netatalk and avahi: apple time capsule custom firmware

opkg update
opkg install avahi-daemon netatalk

Then configure /etc/netatalk/afp.conf to point to /mnt/sata/TimeMachine.sparsebundle. This is non-trivial, but the OpenWrt wiki has a complete afp.conf template. The internal SATA hard drive is directly connected

Assume you have an A1470 and you accept you will lose 5GHz Wi-Fi. To use the custom firmware for its original