Raspberry Pi3 as WiFi-Bridge

frontloop · December 15, 2016 at 2:34 PM

Hi,

i'm using a Rasperry Pi 3 with libreelec 7.90 and Kodi 17.

I want to use the RPi3 as a wifi-bridge:

My Rpi3 is connected to my DSL-router (which is a DHCP-Server) via LAN-cable. Now I want to connect my Smartphone / tablet via wifi to my Rpi3 to both manage my kodi (via remote-control apps like kore or yatse) and to get an Internet connection like: Smartphone to RPi3 via the RPi3-wifi and on to the DSL-router via LAN-cable.

How do I configure my libreelec to get this working?
Something like this Configuring Raspberry Pi as a Wireless-to-Wired Ethernet Island (this is for Raspbian)

**nickr** · December 17, 2016 at 10:11 PM Official Post

Does your dsl-router not have a wireless ap? How do your other wifi devices connect?

Anyway the setup you want is possible. the settings are in libreelec settings.enable 'tethered access point"

frontloop · December 20, 2016 at 6:34 AM

The dsl-router is too far away. I cannot get a wireless Signal from the router.
I set up the 'tethered access point" but then I can only connect my Smartphone to my RPi3, but not my Smartphone to the Internet via the tethered connection (phone -> Rpi3) and the wired connection (Rpi3 -> Internet/DSL-router).

to be a bit moe specific:
It seems that eth0 (wired connection) gets its IP-adress from the router's DHCP-server.
But wlan0 (the wireless Connection) creates a new IP-Adress (192.168.0.1)

roel23 · December 23, 2016 at 9:23 PM

Quote from frontloop

This works perfect only as Access Point: Raspberry Pi gebruiken als WiFi access point • raspberrytips.nl

**chewitt** · December 23, 2016 at 9:33 PM Official Post

Connman is designed to be a "tethered hotspot" same as you'd have on a mobile phone. It should work fine for the use-case you described, but it creates a new routed subnet and cannot work as a bridge to the Ethernet network. If you really want/need a bridge, go buy a WiFi bridge.