Wifi not connecting

[KM6THY]

My hotspot shows on the bottom of screen “address unknown” i go to config page and at ther bottom It does not let me pair

[KE0FHS]

I had this happen on one of my hotspots. I powered it off and back on, and then all worked fine.

[KM6THY]

all 3 of my hotspots show address unknown. I try to go to pi-star/local and can not. the only thing that has happened in the last 48 hours is my home wifi went down. I did a hard reboot and got wifi in the home again but Pi-star config page is not available to me.

[AF6VN]

Did you also reboot the Pi-Star systems? They may still be using a previously assigned IP #, while a rebooted WiFi router might have wiped the assignments and made new ones (conversely, the Pi-Star systems may have obtained new IP #s, but your main computers may have cached the IP # from before the reboot -- in which case you'll have to figure out how to refresh the computer hostname/IP # cache)

[KM6THY]

Thank you for the info. My router was rebooted My brotherinlaw was installing cameras around my house and must have rebooted the router several times. So now I dont know how to get on pi-star config page to update. I just can not get on. What do I do step by step? Thank you

[AF6VN]

Can you log into your WiFi router? It should have a maintenance page which lists connected clients and the IP assigned. If you are lucky, it will also show the "name" it is using for the device (otherwise you'll likely just get a MAC address display). For example, my u-Verse router:

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IPv4 Address / Name 	MAC Address 	Status 	Allocation 	Action
192.168.1.68 / EPSONF4EF32 	00:26:ab:f4:ef:32 	on 	DHCP Allocation 	
192.168.1.65 / DIRECTV-HR54-C94828D7 	18:16:c9:48:28:d9 	on 	DHCP Allocation 	
192.168.1.74 / unknown64c6670531d3 	64:c6:67:05:31:d3 	off 	DHCP Allocation 	
192.168.1.70 / Galaxy-S9 	8c:45:00:6d:1a:4c 	on 	DHCP Allocation 	
192.168.1.67 / HP507DC0 	9c:b6:54:50:7d:c0 	on 	DHCP Allocation 	
192.168.1.79 / pi-star-3b 	b8:27:eb:4b:0b:d5 	on 	DHCP Allocation 	
192.168.1.66 / ElusiveUnicorn 	b8:ca:3a:79:0c:36 	on 	DHCP Allocation 	

[KE0FHS]

What kind of hotspot do you have? Is it mounted on a Raspberry Pi Zero W/3B/3B+ or 3A+? If so, you could try using Auto AP. See: https://amateurradionotes.com/pi-star-auto-ap.htm

[KM6THY]

thanks Dennis I dont know how to get that list page on my. laptop.


also thanks KE)FHS I screen shot the pistar chart and tomorrow morning I will try that

[AF6VN]

thanks Dennis I dont know how to get that list page on my. laptop.

It depends upon your router... https://www.lifewire.com/accessing-your ... ome-818205 (my u-Verse modem uses 192.168.1.254)