Sorry about it. I edited the post.

I just tested it with my RPI4 and all my devices connected the first try! And for someone who's still new to RPi's, that's saying something. Slewed, solved, guided and captured the Eastern Veil without any snags. Thanks for sharing. Forgive me since I'm still new to RPi's but how do I connect to my personal wifi? I've looked all over the internet and I can't seem to figure out how you created the wifi access point. I'm sure you did it from the command line but how can I create and connect to wifi access points via GUI?

In Raspian, there is on the top right (near the time indication) an clickable blue icon. Click on it , select your Wifi access point and enter the password.

I hope there is another way, but the way I've been doing it (RP 3b), it to initially hook up a monitor and wireless mouse/keyboard. Then go setup the wifi requirements, make sure I'm attached to my network. Then disconnect everything and off it goes to my scope.

It does not work like that when a hotspot had been set up and activated, please read the rest of the thread...

Because with this raspbian set up that you have downloaded there is a hotspot set up, then setting it to use your own WiFi is more difficult than normal, you can have both but it requires some coding, really you Have to have either one or the other, so best to stop the hotspot and then set up your own WiFi, once you have done this then it does not need doing each time, it will auto connect to your home WiFi, when powered up, if it doesnt then set it up in the WiFi settings to auto connect when the network is available..

The top right icon just tells me there's no wifi modules available. I've tried to change the wpa_supplicant file. It will at least recognize my network but it won't connect to it even if I tell it to connect. It's like the hotspot broadcast has it disable and is the priority. I don't know enough about raspbian to know how to change this. Regardless, I tested it with iEQ45 Pro, ASI183MM-Pro, ZWO EFW, ASI120MM-S and everything worked great. Imaged all night and worked just like on the StellarMate Pi but obviously quicker since it was a Pi4 with USB 3.0

Downloaded and running, Pentax K-70 camera, HEQ5 mount, ZWO ASI120mini - fantastic!

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It wont work without some clever coding as a hotspot had been set up, it’s not an easy thing to change, that is what I was trying g to say, please read previous posts...

Hello,
I have found a way to have this connected to the internet on a WiFi network and use the configured access point at the same time, but you need a separate USB WiFi dongle, of which they are very small these days...
If you want the instructions then here they are.

1. Insert the WiFi dongle and make sure it’s showing up in the networks icon, should show as wlan1, but you will find as I did, that you can see the networks but will not connect..so
2. Open up your terminal and open this file
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and add these lines replacing “your network SSID” and “your network password” with your own for the WiFi you want to connect to

network={
ssid="yourNetworkSSID"
psk="yourNetworkPassword"
}

Then click “Ctrl and X to save, press Y when asked and then enter.
Then when back at terminal sudo reboot, and when it reboots it should connect to the WiFi with your dongle and still have the hotspot on the internal WiFi also...
Let me know how you get on if you do try...

I just received my Raspberry Pi4 yesterday and I've been inspired to duplicate and modify my AstroPi3 setup script to work for Raspbian so I don't have to wait for Wimpress to finish ubuntu mate. I worked some yesterday and some today. It should not be too much longer before I'm done assuming I don't have any serious issues. Maybe a day or two.

Thanks,

Rob

Hi Rob,
I have a full working set up on the rpi4 but it was a long winded job to get to this stage, had issues with creating the hotspot and also with phd2, but all good now, bit will look forward to seeing and maybe trying your script..
What is included in this script...
William