Hey, thanks! That gives me more options. For now I think I'll just use the mount's access point, which works well enough (especially given that my Pi will never be more than six feet from the hand controller). But it's good to know that I could connect it to the Pi's access point instead, which is a bit stronger. I know for sure that I can connect to that from inside a building 10-20 meters away, not sure about the mount's signal.

I have two main use cases: At home, where I have reasonably good WiFi out in the back yard from the router, and at the astro society's site, where no other WiFi is in play. One problem is that if the Pi sees an access point it knows, it automatically connects to it rather than standing up its own hotspot. Or at least it does that sometimes.

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