Pascal Hibon wrote: > In the beginning I also used my iPhone's wifi hotspot connection. But > that didn't really work in a stable way. There is a certain sequence > that things need to boot (I don't remember the exact sequence). Moving > away from the BPI (leaving the car) and coming back was one of those > situations where things didn't work well. > That's all gone once I installed hostap. That works great, but the "down > side" is that you need to configure fix IP addresses on the phone and on > the BPI. You could probably even fix that by using some sort of > lightweight DHCP server on the BPI. The fix IP thing isn't that bad; my > iPhone remembers the profile of my CarSqueeze and it doesn't interfere > with other profiles on my iPhone. Bottom line, I'm happy with how it > works today.
Sounds like Apple's non-traditional network capabilities are much better than Android's. Or at least as Android is set up on my Samsung phone. I can't do DHCP reservations and can't control which IPs are handed out via DHCP. At the moment I'm finding that the phone I use as the tether is handing out one IP while I have a different one coded on the Pi. OrangeSqueeze running on that phone has simply stopped connecting to LMS on the Pi at all. But if I network in an older LG phone, its OrangeSqueeze instance will happily connect on both IPs, that is, the one that the phone's DHCP is handing out AND the one I have hard-coded. I love computers. I'll look into hostap again. I remember seeing it a while back and getting the impression that it wasn't going to be happy unless it also had an Internet connection, which would not necessarily be the case in the car. Maybe I completely misunderstood. As for the powerbank, I wasn't able to find a GP for sale in the USA (maybe I didn't look hard enough) but the makers of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XN5SGTV claim that it will work or my money back. I'm not 100% sure they understood exactly what I was asking, but the price is certainly right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atrocity's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16009 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105860 _______________________________________________ diy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/diy
