Hotspot won't re-connect
Hotspot won't re-connect
I'm using my smartphone for wifi to connect to my hotspot. The problem I'm having is if I get into a bad cellphone coverage area and lose internet, the hotspot won't reconnect to the phone once I'm back into a good coverage area, a re-boot to Pi-star will reconnect everything. The other problem is I don't always know this has happened, other than the hotspot being abnormally quiet. I have tried disabling Auto-AP and that didn't make a difference. All updates are current, running V 4.1.4. Is there other settings I might be missing that would cause this?
Re: Hotspot won't re-connect
Pi-Star only does a one-time connect ON BOOT... Though I'd think the WiFi connection to the phone would stay active even if the phone loses outgoing cellular coverage. However, losing network (phone to network, not hotspot to phone) could result in a loss of IP # and connections.
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AF6VN
Dennis L Bieber
Re: Hotspot won't re-connect
It should re-connect, so maybe try turning the hotspot on your phone off and back on, see if that helps sort it out next time...AF6VN wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:33 am Pi-Star only does a one-time connect ON BOOT... Though I'd think the WiFi connection to the phone would stay active even if the phone loses outgoing cellular coverage. However, losing network (phone to network, not hotspot to phone) could result in a loss of IP # and connections.
Re: Hotspot won't re-connect
The only way I can get it to reconnect is to reboot the MMDVM. Like I mentioned earlier when using mobile, you don't always know you've lost your internet connection from the phone, so kind of discouraging.
Re: Hotspot won't re-connect
That's interesting in that, to my knowledge, the MMDVM board itself has no internet connection -- it just has the Amateur band RF stuff which gets transferred to the R-Pi for subsequent routing.
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AF6VN
Dennis L Bieber
Re: Hotspot won't re-connect
I'm wondering here if the Watchdog task could be modified to monitor the Inet connection and (attempt to) take corrective action(s) for most, if not all such situations. Or perhaps an independently scheduled (periodic) task running under Crontab.