Well, I added a little autostart.sh script where I log some wifi related stuff, and indeed, it doesn't receive anything when located in the living room.
Now that I've got this confirmed, I also understand why it's probably not working: the raspi is housed in an Argon One M.2 enclosure which is made of metal and probably blocks signals. So, I'll either install an ethernet cable to the location or buy a wifi usb-stick to solve the issue.
I managed to configure wifi via the libre.elec settings addon, which worked. Until now. I didn't change anything, it just says "invalid key". And now it's not working anymore, whatever I try.
Signal quality can't be the issue, the router is just 3 meters away. I have even created a guest network with a simpler key just to make sure it is easy to enter in the settings dialog in time.
I also connected the rasbpi with ethernet and tried to manually configure the wifi with iwd - this works:
LibreELEC (official): 12.0.1 (RPi4.aarch64)
LibreELEC:~ # iwctl station list
Devices in Station Mode
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Name State Scanning
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wlan0 disconnected
LibreELEC:~ # iwctl station wlan0 show
Station: wlan0
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Settable Property Value
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Scanning no
State disconnected
LibreELEC:~ # iwctl station wlan0 get-networks
Available networks
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Network name Security Signal
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CIA-Station-OH psk ****
GITTA psk ****
LibreELEC:~ # iwctl station wlan0 connect CIA-Station-OH
Type the network passphrase for CIA-Station-OH psk.
Passphrase: *********
LibreELEC:~ # iwctl station wlan0 show
Station: wlan0
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Settable Property Value
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Scanning no
State connected
Connected network CIA-Station-OH
IPv4 address 192.168.179.2
ConnectedBss aa:b5:8d:9f:3d:fa
Frequency 5180
Channel 36
Security WPA2-Personal
RSSI -64 dBm
TxBitrate 24000 Kbit/s
RxBitrate 6000 Kbit/s
LibreELEC:~ # ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP8000> mtu 1500 qdisc mq qlen 1000
link/ether dc:a6:32:e2:96:db brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.178.27/24 brd 192.168.178.255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1456 qdisc fq_codel qlen 1000
link/ether dc:a6:32:e2:96:dc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.179.2/24 brd 192.168.179.255 scope global wlan0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverSo, wifi in general works, the password is correct as well, it only doesn't work, when entered via the UI on the TV.
Oh, but now that I re-read you comment, when I am working on the raspi via LAN, then I take it into my office. This is the same room where the wifi router is located. So maybe it's a distance issue after all?
Howdy,
I am totally new to libre.elec. I installed it on a raspi 4. Since my wifi key is really long I have enabled SSH on the box and setup wifi using this howto: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/conf…n-libreelec-ssh. In order to do this I put the box into my office, where I have an ethernet port available. Wifi works very nice then.
But when I put the box back into the living room and connect it to the TV, then wifi doesn't work anymore, this message appears on the screen:
No I could possibly enter the key, but this would be a tedius task. So, why doesn't it come up with the readily configured wifi? Or does Kodi have somehow a different wifi setup than the OS below?
Many thanks in advance,
Tom