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New Jumbo Hotspot - Cant connect to web server

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 3:34 pm
by G4AFI
Hi all,

I have a new Jumbo Hotspot (based on Pi Zero W). I can see the Pistar-Setup AP and can successfully connect using password raspberry. The AP gives my Android tablet an IP address of 192.168.50.55. When I enter this IP address into my Chrome browser I get 'This site can't be reached 192.168.50.50 refused to connect. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

I tried with some other Android Wifi devices - I get a different IP address in the 192.168.50.* subset but when I enter this address into the device browser I always get the same result - as above

Any ideas ??

Thanks,
Andrew

Re: New Jumbo Hotspot - Cant connect to web server

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:50 pm
by AF6VN
The address you receive is the one given to the Android device for ITS END, not the address of the access point.

The setup/auto access point IP address is 192.168.50.1 ALWAYS. However, you shouldn't need to use that as pi-star-setup(.local) as a host name should resolve to it.

Re: New Jumbo Hotspot - Cant connect to web server

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:10 pm
by G4AFI
D'oh silly me, what an obvious mistake! I will try what you suggest.

Thanks,
Andrew

Re: New Jumbo Hotspot - Cant connect to web server

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:49 am
by G4AFI
I have now successfully configured my Pistar Hotspot using 192.168.50.1

BTW I could not get pi-star.local to resolve hence my search for the IP address. What a silly mistake I made !!

Thanks for the help. Great forum.

73 Andrew G4AFI

Re: New Jumbo Hotspot - Cant connect to web server

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 3:56 pm
by AF6VN
G4AFI wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:49 am I have now successfully configured my Pistar Hotspot using 192.168.50.1

BTW I could not get pi-star.local to resolve hence my search for the IP address. What a silly mistake I made !!
In Auto-AP mode, the host name is pi-star-setup(.local)