[arm-allstar] Yellow Box & Iphone

[Ron Gilson]

Very interesting the Big Apple strikes again.  ???  Glad I'm not the only
one.  Thanks for your comments.  WA2WWK  Ron

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 3:22 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> 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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