I run Volumio 0.979 (the latest one) on a Raspberry Pi 3 with HifiBerry AMP+. So WiFi is built into the Pi.
I can easily connect to my WiFi network when having a cable in. The signal strength is good.
When I boot Volumio (or reboot) it seems I only have about 50% chance of Volumio connecting to the WiFi network. If it doesn’t it becomes inaccessible (but a Volumio WiFi hotspot does appear in the list of WiFi networks available). I then pull the Pi’s power and start it up again, repeatedly, until Volumio works.
The WiFi problem seem to happen randomly; it’s very strange.
(Maybe related, I sometimes have to use the IP address to access Volumio when volumio/ won’t work.)
As I need WiFi to work, I am quite desperate now for some guidance or new ideas… Thanks.
hey so if you login to the pi using the volumio hotspot , you can access the wifi settings . try connecting from there and the hotspot automatically disappears , and the pi wifi works , I’m having the same issue and until i learn more about Pi this works for me
My wifi network wasn’t recognised when the volumio AP was active. I decided to disable the AP option by changing hostapd.conf to hostapd.conf.unused in /etc/hostapd
Took me some trail and error before I had the correct config file. So it might be an other conf file depending on the Wifi adapter (I don’t use a rpi3) oh and sudo might be needed
Ah, a way of configuring the Volumio hotspot. Interesting. However, as I understood it the Volumio access point is disabled by default and is activated if and only if a network connection cannot be established.
Yes that is true and how its supposed to work. But upon first boot the wireless cant be setup because you haven’t provided a network nor a password.
Same go’s for later boot’s if the wireless connection times out or the connection starts later then the hotspot is triggered, the hotspot will be active.
If it doesn’t it becomes inaccessible (but a Volumio WiFi hotspot does appear in the list of WiFi networks available). I then pull the Pi’s power and start it up again, repeatedly, until Volumio works.