I'm installing pCP6 with a Jivelite touchscreen in my camper. I will run it in AP mode so that I can use wireless players and control it from my phone. But for various reasons I'd like it to also connect to the internet: - so that when my phone is connected to it I can still reach the outside world - so that I can use Spotty - potentially so that I can put a GSM antenna on a mast and get better reception through the AP than I would on my phone (camping places always seem to have lousy reception!).
So I'm looking for advice on whether it's possible under pCP to bridge a USB GSM/3G/4G dongle to the wifi AP, such that a phone connected to the AP will be able to use the GSM internet? I can see that the AP mode settings in pCP6 allow me to bridge the AP to eth0 - can I do that manually with whatever device the GSM modem shows up as? Will extra packages be needed? Is there a better approach? I think a standalone mobile hotspot (such as 'this one' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B011YM0OXU)) is an alternative. The RPi wouldn't have to be in AP mode then - everything would connect to the hotspot - but the drawback is that nothing would work without that hotspot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111770 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
