Accessing Volumio on Pi3 from another wifi hotspot via ethernet cable

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Hello music lovers

I’ve just discovered Volumio, installed it on my boat on a Pi3B+, using its internal hotspot only, a good quality DAC hat and small 24v amplifier with passive outdoor speakers. It rocks. I love it.

Now I have a network issue. My boat has a Pi4 for navigation, internet, web, email, AIS, GPS, NMEA etc. My marina has pretty good wifi, so I connect the Pi4 via cable through a wifi router, a GL.iNet using its hotspot mode. So my Pi4 plugs into it via ethernet and I have internet access on the Pi4.

So I ran a network cable from the network port on the Pi3 Volumio to the GL.iNet router. I would like to never have to use the Volumio hotspot, but ALWAYS use my GL.iNet hotspot whenever I come to the boat.

So my question is, keeping the GL.inet in the hotspot mode so that I’m connected to the marina wifi, can I connect to my Volumio and control it through the GL.iNet router and ethernet cable? And if so, how?

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Why can’t you just connect your Volumio RPi to your router (either wired or wifi)?

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As long as your phone or computer is on the same wifi or router as your Rasberry Pi with Volumio, you can access Volumio via Http://volumio.local or the volumio app (android at least). Network cable is fine.

The Volumio Hotspot is only for first time setup in case you don’t have a lan cable. So lan cable is good. In settings under connection you can also configure a wifi.

You can also control Volumio via Spotify etc on the wifi.

You can also put music on a USB thumb drive, plug it into your RP3b+, if you going sailing, Volumio will index it.

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That’s basically what I was asking, will that work. I will try it out today. Thank you.