diff --git a/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/Makefile b/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/Makefile
index 83a5c06cf7..fcc5b589d0 100644
--- a/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/Makefile
+++ b/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=prometheus-node-exporter-lua
-PKG_VERSION:=2019.04.12
+PKG_VERSION:=2019.08.14
 PKG_RELEASE:=1
 
 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Etienne CHAMPETIER <champetier.etienne@gmail.com>
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ endef
 define Package/prometheus-node-exporter-lua-openwrt
   $(call Package/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/Default)
   TITLE+= (openwrt collector)
-  DEPENDS:=prometheus-node-exporter-lua
+  DEPENDS:=prometheus-node-exporter-lua +libubus-lua
 endef
 
 define Package/prometheus-node-exporter-lua-ltq-dsl
diff --git a/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/files/usr/lib/lua/prometheus-collectors/openwrt.lua b/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/files/usr/lib/lua/prometheus-collectors/openwrt.lua
index 8b9785a27d..8d44792b91 100644
--- a/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/files/usr/lib/lua/prometheus-collectors/openwrt.lua
+++ b/utils/prometheus-node-exporter-lua/files/usr/lib/lua/prometheus-collectors/openwrt.lua
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
+local ubus = require "ubus"
+local u = ubus.connect()
+local b = u:call("system", "board", {})
+
 local labels = {
-    id = "",
-    release = "",
-    revision = "",
-    model = string.sub(get_contents("/tmp/sysinfo/model"), 1, -2),
-    board_name = string.sub(get_contents("/tmp/sysinfo/board_name"), 1, -2)
+    board_name = b.board_name,
+    id = b.release.distribution,
+    model = b.model,
+    release = b.release.version,
+    revision = b.release.revision,
+    system = b.system,
+    target = b.release.target
 }
 
-for k, v in string.gmatch(get_contents("/etc/openwrt_release"), "(DISTRIB_%w+)='(.-)'\n") do
-    if k == "DISTRIB_ID" then
-        labels["id"] = v
-    elseif k == "DISTRIB_RELEASE" then
-        labels["release"] = v
-    elseif k == "DISTRIB_REVISION" then
-        labels["revision"] = v
-    end
-end
+b = nil
+u = nil
+ubus = nil
 
 local function scrape()
     metric("node_openwrt_info", "gauge", labels, 1)