Wifi question


 
It might be..... but it certainly won't be unless you're pretty darned good with a Raspbian distribution. Brian has made a pretty darned impressive HeaterMeter package, it wouldn't surprise me that as a dedicated application a lot of stuff would get dropped as being unnecessary.

Me, I'm not entirely why I'd want to run on multiple WiFi networks. If you do chase this, I'd suggest making sure that you're not routing traffic between your networks, especially if one leg is visible to the public Internet. FTM, if both WiFi networks are running on the same TCP/IP subnet, there's even less reason IMO to connect to both.

Edit: Ignore this post. He's clarified what he wants, and this isn't it.
 
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DZettinger,

What exactly are you asking to do? Do you want the HM able to connect to two different AP's at different times (i.e. MainHome-wifi, VacationHome-wifi)? Or are you asking if you can have simultaneous connection to two different AP's while powered on?
 
Paul Nederveen said:
DZettinger,

What exactly are you asking to do? Do you want the HM able to connect to two different AP's at different times (i.e. MainHome-wifi, VacationHome-wifi)? Or are you asking if you can have simultaneous connection to two different AP's while powered on?
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I want to be able to use the HM at my house and at my parents house.
 
DZettinger said:
I want to be able to use the HM at my house and at my parents house.
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That makes sense. The previous answers were related to the 2nd scenario.

To answer your question, I'll have to check. I don't think this release of OpenWRT is really set up to do AP polling against a list of client profiles (i.e. what you have in your smart phone where it remembers previously connected networks).

Paul
 
Perhaps the way to go would be to use two Virtual Interfaces on a single wireless adapter, and define the different wireless profiles to each sub-interface.
 
I use 2 wifi dongles. one set up in AP mode, and one set up on my home WiFi. Not sure, but it may be possible to set up one on each home wifi network.
 
Yeah the drivers for 8192cu and the rt5...whatever don't fully support virtual interfaces properly for some reason. 8192 flat outright doesn't support them (and before I patched the driver code to handle it properly, would just hang whenever you created a second adapter) and the other starts getting all wonky when the second interface is up.

If you insert two wifi dongles, they both will show up and be able to be configured independently. Do not use the "wifi-client" or "wifi-ap" helper scripts if you're SSHed in, because those will reconfigure your network down to one interface again. The best way to do this is to start HeaterMeter for the first time with just one interface, let it do its thing and set up the HeaterMeter AP. Get in and reconfigure that for your first network. Then power down, insert your second wifi adapter (at the same time) and boot again. Now under networking -> wifi you should see a second disabled adapter. After you configure this one, you can leave them both in and whichever connects will run the show.
 
Yes, I tried connecting two adapters today and it installed easily via the web gui, just as Bryan outlined.

Was able to connect to two disassociated WLANS independently and simultaneously. When connected simultaneously I only had internet access via the 1st WLAN.

It works.
 
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