No mine is this beastie - www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-9_Archer-C7.html - yes sledge hammer etc

but the Nano portable should work - worth a try

At least you won;t have to worry about doggle drivers for the RPI

Thanks for the idea! Ordered this - www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT300N-V2-Repe...atible/dp/B073TSK26W

Still fighting with this...
Stellarmate, by the way, is just an RPI with kstars/ekos and some other stuff preinstalled/preconfigured and it's great.

Anyway, in my case, if RPI/stellarmate hotspot is active, it can't connect to any other wifi network (i.e. to the mount).
As far as I understand, Stellarmate team did some tricks to make it possible - one adapter, two connections. But it doesn't work for me for some reason.

OK. I succeeded in putting the AZ-GTI in the Station Mode for it to auto-connect to Stellarmate hotspot.
It connects and the mount gets 10.250.250.16 address.
When I use this address instead of 192.168.4.1 in Ekos to control the mount it works!
So, I am good for now - thanks!

Jasem - if you are reading this - I made it work but it should be different/easier in SM, right? What's wrong with my setup?
Thank you!
Max

double post (for some reason). Please delete.

Got this thing. It worked for a couple of hours and then died. Too cheap... the unit is great if you can get a good one. I returned (defective) mine.

I didn't know you can put mount in Station Mode, how did you do that?

I will write documentation for AZ-GTi.. now the documentation is part of EQMod, I think I should split it to add these specific instructions.

-- Connect to AZ-GTi "SynScan_xxxx" wifi hotspot
-- Start/connect SynScan app
-- Go to Settings/Wi-Fi settings
-- There are two sections - Modify Access Point and Modify Station
-- Click Modify Station - there you can enable it (it's disabled by default) and put Stellarmate SSID and password
-- Both modes can be enabled at the same time

Also. From firmware changelog:
Thanks!
Max

Maxthebuilder - glad you have your set up working and I did expect he "Cheap AP" to fail but hoped it would be ok - hence I use a TP-link - still cheapish but good robust h/w.

IMHO The problem with making the RPI be the AP it has to do a lot of work - be a AP,DHCP,DNS and as the RPI3 still shares the USB channel with he Ethernet/Wifi I think we are asking a lot of the little device if you add in Mount,Camera etc - remembering the AP,DHCP,DNS carry a lot of overheads in terms of network management messages.

If Stallemate can work in Station Mode (RPI3 default) and you can attach your "comms" to your home or travel AP network I think performance and wifi problems will diminish. Especially as the RPI WiFi signal is not that strong IMO

But I understand the "does it all" commercial approach

"Both modes can be enabled at the same time" - IMHO I would never do this again asking a lot of what is most likely a ESP826 or ESP32 chip.

Again glad you are getting somewhere !!!

Can you attach screenshots for the App while doing this so I can put it in the documentation?

Does the synscan app also reports the mount IP address after it joins StellarMate network?

-- will do
-- yes it does!

Ok documentation is here: indilib.org/devices/telescopes/az-gti.html

I hope this makes it more clear, I tried to visually illustrate all scenarios.

Super!