2019-07-18, 12:39 AM
Hi there,
I'm working on getting my new tinypilot installed. I use a vesper XB8000 for the instruments over wifi (as they fail I replace the expensive and unreliable simrad instruments with cheap android tablets inside and cheap waterproof android phones outside).
As all the instruments connect direct to the XB8000 I want to make the XB8000 the host and configure the pypilot to connect to it by wifi to get wind data, but I would also like the option to connect direct to the pypilot as host for the web interface or opencpn. Unfortunately its too far from the xb8000 to use a wired connection.
I have an old DLink 122 USB wifi dongle. I wonder if the tinypilot can connect to the vesper network using that for and simultaneously run as an access point with its own wifi (or vice versa)?
Failing that, holding a button at startup to select mode would be the next best option. SVkatielee Could you possibly post a step-by-step please of all the changes you made to make that work? My tinypilot only has infrared remote, would that work for the button press during startup or is it not initialised at that stage? If I need a physical button, I can see the pins for connecting that on the diagram on the pypilot website, but should the button connect the pin to ground or connect it to 5V?
Sean built my new tinypilot a month or two ago so hopefully the version is recent enough - I assume I got the beta version not the stable one because there is a wifi config page on the web interface. How do I check the exact version number I've got and which version number supports the client mode? I'd rather not have to upgrade if possible as this one seems pretty stable so far and I don't want to break it.
Thanks everyone!
I'm working on getting my new tinypilot installed. I use a vesper XB8000 for the instruments over wifi (as they fail I replace the expensive and unreliable simrad instruments with cheap android tablets inside and cheap waterproof android phones outside).
As all the instruments connect direct to the XB8000 I want to make the XB8000 the host and configure the pypilot to connect to it by wifi to get wind data, but I would also like the option to connect direct to the pypilot as host for the web interface or opencpn. Unfortunately its too far from the xb8000 to use a wired connection.
I have an old DLink 122 USB wifi dongle. I wonder if the tinypilot can connect to the vesper network using that for and simultaneously run as an access point with its own wifi (or vice versa)?
Failing that, holding a button at startup to select mode would be the next best option. SVkatielee Could you possibly post a step-by-step please of all the changes you made to make that work? My tinypilot only has infrared remote, would that work for the button press during startup or is it not initialised at that stage? If I need a physical button, I can see the pins for connecting that on the diagram on the pypilot website, but should the button connect the pin to ground or connect it to 5V?
Sean built my new tinypilot a month or two ago so hopefully the version is recent enough - I assume I got the beta version not the stable one because there is a wifi config page on the web interface. How do I check the exact version number I've got and which version number supports the client mode? I'd rather not have to upgrade if possible as this one seems pretty stable so far and I don't want to break it.
Thanks everyone!