Hello
I am new to pi-star and have purchased a second device to use in our Motorhome. It works great on the home wifi but I am having trouble getting it to connect to my iPhone hotspot. I was successful one time getting it to connect but I haven't been able to get it to connect again. Here is what I have done so far.
I have turned on the "Maximize Compatibility" option on the wifi settings on my iPhone. Initially I couldn't see my iPhone hotspot listed as a wifi device.
I made my iPhone name simple. It's just my callsign
The 2 problems I am having are not seeing my iPhone wifi name listed if there are a bunch of other hotspots in the area. Example, I was at a hotel last weekend and there were tons of hotspots/wifi devices and I didn't see my iPhone listed. I am wondering if there is a limit on the number of hotspots that can be listed in the wifi settings.
The other issue I have is when I do see my iPhone hotspot selected, I can't seem to connect to it. I was successful one time but after that one time, no luck.
Any pointers on how to get the iPhone hotspot to work? We travel a lot in our motorhome and it would be fun to be able to take this hotspot with us.
K4QXX
Burch
Can not connect to iPhone
Re: Can not connect to iPhone
"seeing my iPhone wifi name listed" WHERE?k4qxx wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 3:27 pm The 2 problems I am having are not seeing my iPhone wifi name listed if there are a bunch of other hotspots in the area. Example, I was at a hotel last weekend and there were tons of hotspots/wifi devices and I didn't see my iPhone listed. I am wondering if there is a limit on the number of hotspots that can be listed in the wifi settings.
If you properly set up the WPA Supplicant file with both your home WiFi credentials, and a second network with the iPhone credentials, the hotspot should connect to whichever is visible (with priority when both are in range based on network order in the WPA Supplicant file, I believe).
Possible problems:
- mixed WiFi bands... Hotspot on 2.4GHz but iPhone on 5GHz or other way around (though 5GHz hotspot requires the newest R-Pi models).
- iPhone is not broadcasting its SSID (I used to have my WiFi suppress the SSID broadcast until I ended up with one or two devices that just refused to connect if they don't first see the SSID -- whereas my older devices would "ping" the SSID and connect if it responded)
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AF6VN
Dennis L Bieber
Re: Can not connect to iPhone
I think I have it working about %75 of the time if I leave the "iPhone Hotspot settings" page open on my iPhone while booting the hotspot. I read somewhere else that if you have your iPhone open to the hotspot settings page, that it will connect. That makes no sense to me but I rebooted my hotspot several times yesterday and most times it connected to my iPhone hotspot. I will continued playing with it to see if I have any other quirky things I have to do.
Re: Can not connect to iPhone
Hi , I can find and attach pi star to my iPhone connections but the dashboard won’t let me into admin, let’s me into configuration.
Am I missing something here?
Any advice would be appreciated
Walter
Am I missing something here?
Any advice would be appreciated
Walter