omdrop-owl: two-way AirDrop with iPhone on a Framework 13 Linux laptop via OWL, with Wi-Fi staying connected
On 2026-10-09 developer t4t5 open-sourced omdrop-owl, a radio backend for the Omarchy plugin omdrop that gives two-way AirDrop with an iPhone on the Framework 13's MediaTek MT7925 while Wi-Fi stays connected. It builds on Seemoo Lab's 2019 OWL/OpenDrop reverse engineering rather than a from-scratch effort. README self-tests: ~1.3 MB/s receive, ~490 kB/s send; the AP must be on channel 6/44/149.
Key Takeaways
- Project: omdrop-owl, repo created 2026-10-08; 416 stars / 24 forks at ingest (GitHub API); no license declared
- Hardware: only MediaTek MT7925 (Framework 13) tested; two-way transfer with Wi-Fi staying connected
- Speed (author's README self-test): ~1.3 MB/s receive, ~490 kB/s send; start/stop about 2 s
- Limits: AP must be on channel 6/44/149; station may stop receiving 3–165 s after monitor teardown, so it reconnects
- Lineage: builds on Seemoo Lab's 2019 OWL/OpenDrop; omdrop PR #25 still open
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