I have deliberately disabled the Wifi connectivity on RPi as it gets flaky signal when I set it up in the garden.
I am able to communicate between laptop & RPi via this 169.254.x.x. IP using ethernet cable. eg. Ekos is able to connect to INDI server on port 7624. So I am unsure why the webserver is not able to traverse this??

Hope that this clarifies?

Read More...