Creating WiFi AP on LibreELEC on RPI2

vbcoder · January 20, 2017 at 4:56 PM

Hi,

I am trying to create a wifi hotspot on my RPI2 with LibreELEC, however I cannot find an add-on which has the hostapd binary. Can someone assis?

**awiouy** · January 20, 2017 at 4:57 PM Official Post

LibreElec Wireless Access Point Setup Raspberry Pi 3 - RobbysWeb.comRobbysWeb.com

**chewitt** · January 21, 2017 at 7:22 AM Official Post

All you have to do is enable the "tethered hotspot" feature in LE settings add-on. No need for hostapd to be present. The native feature requires wireless drivers that support AP modes (most, but not all, do) and it is very simple, not a substitute for spending on a proper router.

vbcoder · January 21, 2017 at 3:10 PM

What you are saying is correct, but that feature uses connmanctl tethering feature, which unfortunately does not allow advanced configuration such as which wifi Band(s) and channels to use (according to docs i found). Hence the need for the more complicated setup with hostapd.

bluenote · April 18, 2017 at 11:58 PM

Enabling this feature gives me a generic hotspot, but no internet access (from wired connection to the pi). Is there a way to do this out of the box?
Or, OP did you manage to configure this? (so it would appear, not forwarding between interfaces is my guess)

thanks for any suggestions, this will be a fantastic addition to my wired pi's.
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Just noting that I stumbled on a fix, and indeed, it is forwarding that is the problem.
kjosza explains here: thread-2236-post-43827.html#pid43827

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward will temporarily fix it.

**milhouse** · April 20, 2017 at 12:19 AM

bluenote does the sysctl version work too, as outlined in this post? As this is likely to be the solution we implement (a variation of it, anyway).

bluenote · April 20, 2017 at 12:29 AM

Quote from milhouse

bluenote does the sysctl version work too, as outlined in this post? As this is likely to be the solution we implement.

Yes the sysctl method actually does seem to persist, so that should be the method I think.

**milhouse** · April 20, 2017 at 2:28 AM

Thanks, this should be fixed in LE 8.0.2.

willieaames · April 20, 2017 at 7:52 AM

The wireless problems mostly have to do with the Broadcom wireless chipset on the RPi. On mobile now, but you can go to the official RPi forums and read all about that if you want.

**milhouse** · April 20, 2017 at 7:23 PM

Quote from willieaames

The wireless problems mostly have to do with the Broadcom wireless chipset on the RPi. On mobile now, but you can go to the official RPi forums and read all about that if you want.

I'm aware of some issues which will hopefully be fixed soon when they will be added to LibreELEC. This particular issue is actually a connman 1.32 problem which we will take upstream. As a temporary fix we may use sysctl until there is a complete fix in connman.