2019-07-18, 12:50 PM
Hi syohana,
In the recently released tinypilot image the wifi client option seems to work out of the box. This invalidates some of the postings above. Tinypilot would then get a random IP address from the access point, in this case your xb8000, and with that ip address you can access the tinypilot web interface through the access point that you have chosen. This way you would not need to use the usb dongle, a road I would not choose as I've pulled many hairs on that one.
The fact it's a random ip address is a bit awkward. On openplotter you can fix an ip address to a mac address (under the hood, still). I'm not sure you can do that on your xb8000, but it may be possible. If not, it leaves you with the option of fixing it on the tinypilot side, changing for instance /opt/bootlocal.sh as below, add 'opt/bootlocal.sh' to /opt/.filetool.lst, run filetool.sh -b, and reboot.
ifconfig wlan0 10.10.10.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
#sv u dhcpcd
I think it would be quite handy (i.e., feature request ;-) if a new tinypilot image would allow for specifying a fixed client ip address.
In the recently released tinypilot image the wifi client option seems to work out of the box. This invalidates some of the postings above. Tinypilot would then get a random IP address from the access point, in this case your xb8000, and with that ip address you can access the tinypilot web interface through the access point that you have chosen. This way you would not need to use the usb dongle, a road I would not choose as I've pulled many hairs on that one.
The fact it's a random ip address is a bit awkward. On openplotter you can fix an ip address to a mac address (under the hood, still). I'm not sure you can do that on your xb8000, but it may be possible. If not, it leaves you with the option of fixing it on the tinypilot side, changing for instance /opt/bootlocal.sh as below, add 'opt/bootlocal.sh' to /opt/.filetool.lst, run filetool.sh -b, and reboot.
ifconfig wlan0 10.10.10.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
#sv u dhcpcd
I think it would be quite handy (i.e., feature request ;-) if a new tinypilot image would allow for specifying a fixed client ip address.