Raspberry Pi Zero W Simultaneous AP and Managed (Client) Mode WiFi
Hardware
single-board computer networking
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Raspberry Pi Zero W Simultaneous AP and Managed (Client) Mode WiFi
Raspberry Pi Zero W Simultaneous AP and Managed (Client) Mode WiFi
blog.thewalr.us#raspberry pi zero w#wifi access point#managed mode#hostapd#simultaneous ap client
How HN took it
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.36.
Docs: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Well documented and useful write-up
From 3 comments
This is fantastic and well documented.
epalmer on HNThanks for the article this is very useful will try later on with Raspberry Pi 3 and the Raspberry Zero Zero W.
cryo on HNGreat work. Would you provide more details about the requirements that led you to running Wifi as AP and a Client?
undersuit on HN
Objections
Range and downlink performance are weak due to the on-board PCB antenna
From 1 comment
Unfortunately, the antenna on the RPi is not great, due to it being a PCB-etched pattern antenna. For client, the range seems really good, thought not nearly as good as something…
albeec13 on HN
Requests
Ask for the Broadcom driver and interface setup details
From 2 comments
Are you referring to the issues I had getting it working prior to my workaround script? I would love to know as well. I mentioned it somewhere, but during boot, there are a few…
albeec13 on HNI am curious about the existing issue when running these two modes simultaneously. Is this related to the network chipset that makes it harder vs a common PC card?
wslh on HN
Questions
How the uap0 interface gets created
From 2 comments
Awesome project! I browsed through your headlessPi repo and saw how you configure hostapd and whatnot, but I'm having trouble seeing where you actually get the uap0 interface…
albeec13 on HNWhen doing assigning you own fictional MAC I would recommend using locally administered addresses. It's basically just one bit flip:…
emj on HN
Behaviour when moved out of range of the upstream AP
From 1 comment
does this behave sanely if the pi-zero is taken out of range of the AP it's connected to? Are the connections between the pi-zero and its' clients preserved in that case? I'm…
serf on HN
Alternatives named
resin-wifi-connect
From 1 comment
The resin.io team has made something like this called resin-wifi-connect[1]. It doesn't appear to be as simple as it could be, but it's prior art if you plan to make something…
mdtusz on HN
RaspAP web UI
From 1 comment
The RaspAP web UI does not support this, yet. https://github.com/billz/raspap-webgui/issues/21
j_s on HN