01-15-2023, 05:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-15-2023, 06:33 PM by guermantes.)
Thanks.
The fact that it doesn't reconnect by itself would indeed be a drag, but I'll let my sister be the judge if she can live with that.
I did some experimenting and found out that Moode can talk on two different subnets at the same time, over Ethernet from laptop on 10.x.x.x and over WiFi from cell phone on 192.168.x.x. That's great, because with a lame router without external internet access one can still access the web interface at moode.local from the laptop and then just check on the Network settings page what IP address is assigned to Moode-rpi by the cell phone access point's DHCP. Then just set that IP as static in the WiFi settings and Moode will always get the same IP when connecting to that cell phone.
And since the connection over Ethernet always stays alive, when the hotspot AP is turned on again after having been off, she can always power cycle from the web interface rather than pulling the power cord (which would not be good for the hard-/software).
Interestingly, I was pulling my hair for one hour without understanding why Moode could not connect to my phone's AP (OnePlus 3) with correct password when other devices could connect without problem. It was driving me crazy! Then I tried with a newer phone (Samsung A52S) and, hey presto, it connected immediately to that phone's hotspot AP. The software must be too old in the OnePlus from 2017. Weird though...
EDIT: even more curiously, I loaded a "competitor" player (a couple of years old) in the RPi, and it can connect to my OnePlus hotspot...
The fact that it doesn't reconnect by itself would indeed be a drag, but I'll let my sister be the judge if she can live with that.
I did some experimenting and found out that Moode can talk on two different subnets at the same time, over Ethernet from laptop on 10.x.x.x and over WiFi from cell phone on 192.168.x.x. That's great, because with a lame router without external internet access one can still access the web interface at moode.local from the laptop and then just check on the Network settings page what IP address is assigned to Moode-rpi by the cell phone access point's DHCP. Then just set that IP as static in the WiFi settings and Moode will always get the same IP when connecting to that cell phone.
And since the connection over Ethernet always stays alive, when the hotspot AP is turned on again after having been off, she can always power cycle from the web interface rather than pulling the power cord (which would not be good for the hard-/software).
Interestingly, I was pulling my hair for one hour without understanding why Moode could not connect to my phone's AP (OnePlus 3) with correct password when other devices could connect without problem. It was driving me crazy! Then I tried with a newer phone (Samsung A52S) and, hey presto, it connected immediately to that phone's hotspot AP. The software must be too old in the OnePlus from 2017. Weird though...
EDIT: even more curiously, I loaded a "competitor" player (a couple of years old) in the RPi, and it can connect to my OnePlus hotspot...
