[arm-allstar] Yellow Box & Iphone

[Patrick Perdue]

I, too, have had limited success using iPhones with Raspberry Pi. I 
don't know what makes it more difficult than a generic hotspot or even 
an Android phone, but this is truth.

It took several attempts, changing nothing, by the way, to convince my 
G7RPG MicroHub to connect to my iPhone the other day. I just kept 
rebooting the node, and eventually, it worked.


On 1/11/2020 2:40 PM, "Darrell Black via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> For what it is worth, my club built many (over 100) PI star hotspots and
> about 30 Allstar hotspots (using SHARI nodes). Since the ISO 13 update we
> can no longer log into the iphone as we could before. If you are lucky you
> can connect once in a while but almost all of us have now gone to cell
> hotspots like the ATT nighthawk to be able to go portable. If you want
> incoming connections you will need to build a headless node at home to host
> the echolink and incoming connections and set your portable node to
> autodial home while your out and about.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 10:41 AM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>>
>> You generally cannot access non-password SSID's as they usually require a
>> web login. They also would not be secure. The whole idea of using a hotspot
>> is the ability to use your own hotspot when you are away from available RF.
>> If RF is available you should use it. You also could use the dvswitch or
>> Echolink software on any Android phone to access your home node or other
>> nodes you have access to. There is a howto on the dvswitch at the
>> hamvoip.org web page. The hotspot works and if your is not working
>> reliably
>> my guess would be it is the phone and not the Pi. Obviously the phone has
>> to have good cellular signal to work so that may be part of your problem.
>>
>>
>> *73 Doug*
>>
>> *WA3DSP*
>>
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 10:28 AM Ron Gilson <wa2wwk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes gives cwid then a very short ptt about 3 seconds latter.  I always
>> get
>>> the same ip from the phone and once that happens it will stay even if I
>>> walk out of range of the Hotspot and return an hour later?  Interesting
>> YB
>>> works great once it gets an ip?  Can I add several hotspots? some with
>>> passwords some without?  local fast foods, malls etc.  Thanks again.
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:19 PM "Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar" <
>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ron,
>>>>
>>>>    Well this does not have anything to do with it being a yellow box as
>> the
>>>> SW is the same as any other hotspot/hamvoip system. If the Pi is setup
>>>> with
>>>> the SSID and passphrase for the hotspot it should connect. I have rarely
>>>> seen one that would not connect assuming everything was set correctly.
>>>> There should be nothing in the phone you need to set other than turning
>> on
>>>> the hotspot. The phone should be turned on and in hotspot mode first.
>> Then
>>>> boot the Pi.  It should give an IP address. If you have more than one
>> SSID
>>>> stored in the Pi make sure only the one you want is online otherwise it
>>>> could connect to one you don't want. You could try deleting the
>>>> wpa_supplicant file and adding the phone hotspot back in.
>>>>
>>>> One question though is your description of "accepting the hotspot"  does
>>>> this mean you are not getting an IP address announcement or you get it
>> and
>>>> then cannot connect?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *73 Doug*
>>>>
>>>> *WA3DSP*
>>>>
>>>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM "Ron Gilson via ARM-allstar" <
>>>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone experienced having to reboot a yellow box several times
>>>> (4-6) to
>>>>> get the iPhone to accept the yellow  box?  I  hope to  come up with an
>>>>> alternative but so far seems like re-booting is the only way.  Maybe
>> the
>>>>> phone settings aren't correct but can't see any documentation to solve
>>>> this
>>>>> problem.  Thanks.  Ron  WA2WWK
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