RaspAP, a free, open source, inexpensive way to create a wireless access point or repeater!

[Music] hey it's your open source advocate and I'm back with another video and today we're gonna do something with the Raspberry Pi this is a PI 3 B it has Wireless built in but you don't have to use this model you could probably even use a Raspberry Pi 0 if you really got after it but we're gonna use a Raspberry Pi 3 today and we're gonna build an access point actually a wireless access point for the network it's really great it's some really simple software to get installed so we're gonna get started here in just a minute you'll also need either a micro SD card or a regular SD card depending on the model of Raspberry Pi that you're using and then a computer to burn the initial image that we want so let's get to it so the first thing we want to do is want to go to the rasp ap web site so its rasp EP com Ras PAP com and when you get there you'll see there's a product called the rasp ap web GUI the other thing we want to get is a raspbian distro and I'll put all the links in the show notes so basically you're gonna come to the Raspberry Pi website you're gonna look for a raspbian and you want to get raspbian buster light so you can either do that through the torrent or you can download the zip file either one it doesn't really matter which one you grab just make sure you grab one of those and once you've grabbed it you're just gonna unzip that file so that you have the image file and then we're gonna burn that using Eicher to our SD card so go ahead and get that downloaded and then come back in order to burn this to the SD card we're gonna use a tool called Ballena etcher and you can find this really easily online ballina at sure I believe it's at Villena IO and then you can look for etcher when you get this and ones on Windows Mac Linux it's really a great little tool for burning images to USB drives to SD cards it doesn't matter so when you're ready you want to get your SD card prepared and you can either use an adapter like a USB adapter or you can use one of these SD to micro sd card adapters but you need to pop that into your machine wherever it fits however you can get it into the computer that you're gonna use for burning this initial image and mine's gonna pop open a couple of different folders here want to install it once that's installed you're gonna click on this button right here to go select your image and we want this 2019 Buster light image so I'm just gonna double click that guy then you're gonna go here and make sure you pick your SD card you want to make sure you pick the right thing now Bolinas pretty good it'll only find like external hard drives and things but if you have a backup drive connected like I do you don't want to erase that by accident so in this case I want this 32 gigabyte drive that's the SD card that I'm using and then I'm going to click continue just make sure that's the one that has a checkmark next to it and then finally you're going to click on this flash button and it's going to prompt you for your password let that go and it's gonna flash and then we'll be back you all right when you see that B'Elanna has come back to this screen you're pretty much done with etcher so you can just close it out and then we need to go and actually we're not done with our SD card so don't eject it just yet you actually want to open up your file explorer or whatever you're using for your system so in this case I'm using Linux I'm gonna go ahead and open it up and right here you'll see that I have a couple of ejected drives and that's the drives that it just burned there should be one that says root FS and one that says boot so we want to remount boot so on this system you just click on it and it'll remount and inside this little boot drive we need to make a couple of changes so actually a couple of additions so I'm just gonna right click you can do this in whatever way makes sense for you and then I'm gonna go to create document empty file which is exactly what I want and I'm just gonna type in in lower case SSH I'm just gonna hit enter you don't put anything in that file you don't put a file extension on it nothing like that the next one we need is one that will actually set up my wireless from the get-go for my Wi-Fi network you don't have to do this but if you're doing this wirelessly then you'll want this upfront if you can plug into Ethernet it's gonna be much better and that's the way that I'm actually gonna do the install of the software but first I want to make sure that I have excess wirelessly if I need it so I'm gonna go over here to my documents and I have this file called WP a supplicant Kampf and again I'll put all this stuff in the description for you I'm just gonna go ahead and open this up and I'm just gonna open it up in a text editor and this is a pretty straightforward file but this tells the system what it what you want it to set up for the wireless so I'm gonna have the password blurred out here for my wireless network but this is your password for your wireless network this is the SSID for your wireless network that you might have going right now first you want to have country equals the two character definition for your so if you're not in the US then you would put UK or CA or MX just depending on where you live you need to put the two two character abbreviation for your country this line is the same every time so the ctrl underscore interface equals capital dir equals slash var slash bin slash or excuse me var slash runs left WPA underscore supplicant and then space all caps group equals lowercase net div next line says update underscore config equals one and then finally you come to this last line where it says network equals and then it's an object so you basically you just create an object and you define your network SSID and your network password and then close it off and save that file as WPA underscore supplicant comm so I just wanted you to see what that file looks like I'm just going to copy that file and then I'm gonna go back to my boot and I'm going to paste that file into the boot section alright I'm done with boot now so I can eject it and close that and I'm gonna go ahead and just pop out that card at this point I'm gonna connect up my raspberry pi I'm gonna connect it to Ethernet as well and let it boot up and I'm gonna give it about three or four minutes because it does some initial things the first time you boot up raspbian light so be patient when you start it start it up just kind of watch the lights on the front of it and if they're blinking that's a good sign once we get it all booted up then we're gonna come back and start doing some things that are here on their rasp AP page for instructions they do give you screenshots of what it looks like if you just keep scrolling down you'll get to the instructions section and you just kind of want to follow these instructions to get everything set up the way that it needs to be set up so let me go get this plugged up and then we'll come back and keep going alright so I've got the Raspberry Pi all set up I've got it plugged into my Ethernet has been running for a few minutes so I'm gonna use and grip' scanner which I talked about in last week's video so I'll leave a link for that down in the description if you'd like to to look at it and I'll create a little card that should pop up somewhere up in the upper right and we'll see if you want to watch that one as well as you haven't seen it yet this is a really great tool for basically discovering devices on your network and what their IPs and ports are so I have this one set and if you want to look at it here it's only gonna look for the live host which kind of keeps it from showing everything that it tries to ping I don't have it scanning for specific ports but will actually set it to scan for port 22 because I want to SSH into the device and then we'll hit start alright it finished up and right here we can see that there are two devices found are actually two different connections found called Raspberry Pi at local this is because I have the wireless set up and the wired set up and I don't know which is which at this point but they both have port 22 open so I just need to connect to them and see which is which and then we'll we'll get started on figuring out what we want to do with this device here all right so we're gonna do SSH pi at 192.168 at 7.2 oh nine here and it's probably gonna tell me that I've already got this in my hosts file because I've done this before so it may tell me I need to get rid of it first let's see no it's okay alright and it's always pi is the is the username initially and then ra ASP beo ry is the default password for the Raspberry Pi and real quick we're going to do what it suggests here we're going to do pas swd so we can change our password so we're gonna put in the original RAS PBE rry and then we want to put in our new one and it asks you for that twice and we've changed our password so that's not the default password and a little bit harder if somebody tries to access it without our permission which is what we want so now we're going to do is config so this is going to show us our interfaces so right here you can see we have our wlan0 and that is 209 which is what we're connected on which means our eath 1 our ethernet or wired connection is 210 so we want to connect through 210 so let's just real quick do exit and we'll do ssh pi @ 192.168.1.2 10 now this one may give me a warning let's see and it did so that's okay if you get this warning just copy this line right here and paste it here which is it's nice that they give you this information because used to they didn't they just so do you have can't connect too bad and you had to figure out how to go get rid of that line so it's nice to have that command right there and then I'll just try this again yes we want to connect and we'll put in the new password we just made and we're in now first thing we want to do is follow those instructions that we talked about and their instructions showed sudo apt update and I believe they use sudo apt-get update let's take a look yes it is apt-get update but sudo apt update works the same way and then they don't want us to use sudo apt-get just upgrade after that so let's go do those all right so we finished the update now we'll do sudo apt-get dist upgrade and we'll hit why because yes we want to do this and we'll let it run through here real quick okay they're giving us some warning here about a change to the system that's fine I'm not concerned about it so we're just going to press Q to quit we'll let the install continue all right so it did a lot of updates there I did see a few kernel changes I'm really particular about kernel changes I like to go ahead and reboot so I'm gonna type in sudo reboot and I'll tell you why whenever I see kernel changes when I do any kind of updates or upgrades you don't have to reboot right then you could continue going you can install the software you want to use you could get everything set up and running you know just let it let it do great and at some point down the road if you happen to reboot that server those kernel changes could come into effect where they hadn't yet and those changes to that kernel could have a negative effect on the software you installed so everything could have been running swimmingly you went and rebooted and now nothing works and you're not really sure why it's because you forgot about those kernel changes that happened when you did that initial upgrade or maybe you didn't upgrade recently where that happened you didn't reboot so that's why I like to do it right after I do this step just to make sure I'm not missing something really really important we'll give it just a second here to finish kind of the reboot and then we'll log right back into it all right I'm gonna try to SSH right back in here and it looks like it's back up and running so we're going to switch back over to our instructions and we did the reboot and now we're gonna do this localization option so this isn't something that we actually have to do but I want to go through it for you anyways if you didn't do the initial step where we did the WPA supplicant comm file you'll want to do this step for sure so we're gonna do we're gonna do this we're gonna set the localization for our Wi-Fi basically since we set it as our two-letter country and that WPA supplicant kampf it's already set but if you didn't do that step you need to go into raspy - config and actually set it and I like to go in there anyways and set my timezone so we'll go ahead and go back to our terminal and we'll get that set so we will do sudo RA SPI - config we're gonna go to our localization options so right here you can do change the Wi-Fi country so we already have our set but we'll go ahead and say it again and we are under you so I am United States I'm gonna set that and hit OK I'm gonna hit OK and then I'm also gonna go into localization options and I'm gonna do change timezone and I'm gonna go up for me it's America you would of course go to your continent and then I am America Chicago so I'm gonna move down here to Chicago I'm gonna hit tab to get to the okay and hit enter and then I'm gonna tab a couple of times to get to finish and hit enter and I'm gonna reboot one more time alright let's see if we can get logged back in here all right we are in let's go back to our instructions real quick all right we've done those steps now we want to run the quick installer so you're just gonna highlight this command copy it and then you're gonna go back to your terminal and you can right click and paste or you can do ctrl shift V like Viktor and paste and we're gonna run this and right off the bat it's going to ask you some questions basically I'm just going to hit yes for every question that it asked me all the way through I'm going to accept the defaults and everything it's going to go out grab some packages pull some things down that it needs again I'm just going to accept all of their defaults here as they ask these questions but PHP configure section cookie yes raspy control services yes and then open VPN support I'm going to say yes and I'll tell you why when we get into the interface and when you get done the last thing it's gonna ask you is do you want to reboot it as a final step and of course yes we do so we're gonna get why and enter and we'll give that just a minute to reboot while we're waiting on that to reboot we can go look at our instructions again and right here it tells us that this is what it's going to come up as as the IP address for that Wi-Fi connection now this will be our login username and password initially so we want to change those this is the SSID that you're going to be looking for in order to connect to it through a wireless connection and then this is the password for that wireless connection so this is some important information to have initially we want to go in and change these things so that they're not the defaults of course but it's important to have this information off the bat all right we've got everything set up and now we want to actually login to the Raspberry Pi access point so there's a couple of ways you can do this if you've got it set up where you've got the Ethernet going into it it's still going to have that local IP address from your from your normal router and then it also has this new address that's going to be from basically connecting to that wireless interface that is telling you about so first I'm going to go in through the normal router just because we can see a little bit more about what's happening without me getting cut off of the Wi-Fi which is actually allowing my mouse and keyboard to work because I'm working through barrier which I've done a video on before that shares my keyboard and mouse between two different machines so let me let me get that set up and we'll go in there so I'm just gonna go over here and open a new tab and I'm gonna go to the same IP that I've been logging into 192.168 at 7.2 10 and you can see right away it pops up and asked for our username and password so I'm going to put an admin and secret and that's what those are so out of the gate you can either click here or you can click over here on the off configuration option they both go to the same place and basically you can change that so you can see here it's admin will put in see and now we'll put in whatever we want for our password to be and then we'll just save that change and it's done it gives you a little happy Green message that you did it so that's good so we've got a different way of doing this and if we go back to our dashboard it's gonna ask us to log back in so now we put in the new password and we're back into our dashboard so now that I've done that I'm actually gonna go and change this up and I'm going to switch out my keyboard or mouse for one that's connected directly to my to my machine that I'm working on and I'll join that Wi-Fi network that's being presented by my AP so that you can see that okay so we're gonna go over here and we're gonna just look at my Wi-Fi you can see currently I'm connected to my own home Wi-Fi I'm just gonna disconnect from that one you know tell me I'm just connected and then I'm gonna go look for raspy web GUI now I've logged into this one before when I've done this in the past as I was kind of practicing and going through all the steps before I did this again so it's probably already in the password memory we'll find out here yeah it is so it connected already on its own which is great so now we can go here and we can actually load up ten dot 3.14 one dot one and there we go so we're logged back in and we're on the web GUI alright so we can look at our terminal and we can just clear this out and I can do is config and I've got a lot of different adapters here but what we're interested in is this one here the WL p3s zero because why wouldn't that be what it's called and here you can see what my IP address is which is ten dot 3.14 one dot 107 in this case so I am connected to the R as pi web GUI which is great so if we switch back over to the browser we can see the web GUI that we're running and oops I clicked on the wrong thing but we go back to our dashboard so there's two things now that we can go through here and kind of check out and set up and you can see we've got a couple of things that are actually connected to this web GUI so my iMac the house apparently connected automatically on its own when it saw this signal which is awesome and then now my laptop is connected so if I go down here and I actually say let me look at the Wi-Fi information and you'll notice it loads it takes a minute just to load up here so I'm not connected to a Wi-Fi network so it's not it's not acting as a Wi-Fi repeater I have tried to get that set up in the past I haven't had a lot of luck but we may try it here again in just a minute but the reason is is that the Wi-Fi card inside the Raspberry Pi is acting like a Wi-Fi access point so it's accepting incoming requests to connect to it there is a way to do this and you can put it in managed mode basically but you need like a separate Wi-Fi USB dongle so I may try that here in a minute but right now it's connected to my Ethernet and it's acting like a Wi-Fi access point it's not really a router and I hate to call it a router because a router does something different I am gonna do a Raspberry Pi um router with open wrt down the road but right now if you just need an access point let's say you have your house set up your house is wired you've got wired Ethernet where it's a three-story house something like that and and you're Ethan your internet comes into the basement and your Wi-Fi just doesn't reach far enough this is something that you can use and you can just set it up for pretty cheap and go and actually create a Wi-Fi hotspot in your house you could name it the same thing as your current Wi-Fi it doesn't really matter honestly you can you can name whatever you want it just comes out of the box named rasp web GUI right so just be aware this is here we may try to connect here in a little bit but right now it's not connected any because the little X here it's not set so we can go to configure the network which is what we've been talking about and right now you can see it's using W and 0 so you can drop this down and you can change which adapter it uses if it's a wireless adapter of course that's the one you want you don't want to set this to use e zero because e 2 0 can't accept wireless connections so you want to leave it there so here the SSID is rasp GUI so I'm going to change this to Ras in AC and G so I want it to be on n now there's rules about how you set this up under the security side so be careful about this I don't the channels fine for now you do want to pick a channel that avoids a lot of the other network traffic in your area so if you have a lot of Wi-Fi set up in your area a lot of them are probably on default settings but you can find applications that actually tell you which channel those are using and you can find a place where there's a dip so that you don't have so much noise and you'd want to set that channel I'm just gonna leave it on one for now it's fine so we're gonna save those settings and it tells you when it saves and then we're going to go to security here you want to leave this one wpa2 at a bare minimum so please don't don't put that at less than wpa2 when I talked about the in if you're gonna use Wi-Fi in it has to be on this setting I don't know why that is but that's just in the documentation from rasp AP and then here of course we want to change this to something else so it's not the default and we'll call it password 12 and then we'll save and you'll notice it'll jump back to the basic tab here that's fine so we talked about that managed mode this is a place where you need to also set up some changes so if you if you install another Wi-Fi adapter and you get it connected to a Wi-Fi and you want it to act like a Wi-Fi and ap at the same time it's a Wi-Fi client in AP mode basically you would have to come and enable this so right now if I click it it's not gonna do anything because I don't have that setup but then also there's logging so if you set that up you can turn on logging so so there's a few things here that you can do there's nothing here that we need to change just wanted you to be aware of what that setting is and then of course if you do turn on lauding this is where you would see the logging so that's all set so now you can stop the hot spot and start the hot spot we're currently connected to the hot spot but that's ok so we're gonna stop it that's gonna kind of disconnect us so it's going to be hard to start it again so you need to make sure you have an Ethernet connection to this device because once it stops we need to be able to connect through the other IP which is through our Ethernet oh and I need to connect to the correct Wi-Fi in order to do that so you have to go switch back to your original Wi-Fi once you do that and then you should be able to connect back to your hotspot and we'll come down here to configure the hotspot here and we want to start it back up so basically this should take it and change it to what we said we want our SSID to be takes just a minute give it a little time and it should pop up with some message that says it started the hotspot back up there you go you get about four little messages and it says hotspot up so we're gonna go and we're going to connect to our new SSID so there's our new SSID right there and the list and we're gonna hit connect and of course it wants our password so type in that password that you set for that SSID and then hit connect we'll give it a second I know you're not seeing what I'm doing because I'm just getting the display here but we'll go back and now we'll refresh and we don't want to resubmit this so actually just back all that out just to you're back to that IP address and then hit enter and it'll load back up to your dashboard and you're back in and you can go and actually check everything to make sure it looks right so if zero is connected here's the IP here's a WLAN one our double and zero and there's the information for it and you can hit refresh any time you want to see that information and then of course you can set up specific settings for each of those interfaces so if you want Ethan zero to have a static IP address you can set that and then down here you can set all of those values wlan0 you shouldn't really mess with this one because it's already kind of acting as an access point but if you add another WLAN and you want to use it for a different purpose then you can switch those out and you can come set up those settings here each time you do that you need to apply the settings save the settings and then you'll either want to stop the hotspot and restart the hotspot or just reboot the Raspberry Pi and it should kick in all of those changes alright next is DHCP server settings so this Raspberry Pi point is acting like a DHCP server so it's giving out addresses to machines that connect to it and it does so within a certain range so here you can see that ranges from dot 50 all the way through 255 so below dot 50 is being reserved in case you want to set static IP addresses for some machines that connect to this access point pretty nice feature pretty simple but you can change these ranges if you want everything then just set it from dot two up to 255 and that's fine again you can set those you can change those settings but we're working with W and zero so that's what we needed to be set for so this is the part that's interesting so that's why I let it set this up whenever we get the install but openvpn is really a great tool and I did a video a while back on pry tunnel it basically lets you create an open VPN setup in the cloud and it gives you a nice little web GUI to control that and set up the networks and the organizations and things and then once you have a user set up you can go and get configurations for that user once you have that configuration you are able to go and actually get that configuration profile and download it and then here you could say you know what bringing that profile for me and save it and then connect up using Open VPN so now your access point is connected to your pride tunnel server in the cloud as a VPN and any traffic that goes through it is going to be going through that VPN that means that every machine that connects to this access point is now going through your pride tunnel VPN in the cloud to me that's pretty awesome so I really like this feature it's a beta feature but it'll come into being where it's not a beta feature in the long run so I think that's pretty great again if there's log file output you'd see it here so if you're having issues getting it to connect for some reason you might check the log file and see what's going on and it might help you fix the problem all right so remember I told you about off the configuration that's where you click here or you can click here and you can change the password for logging into the system and the username for logging into the system you can't change the theme so I'm fine with this theme but if you change it you've got kind of an orange or pink there and then you've got this kind of what they call terminal which is dark with a console type text so that's kind of cool and then you can come back to the light theme your data usage graphing is pretty nice so this over time will grow and you can't kind of see what the data usage looks like over time pretty useful and then of course you can click on daily and you can click on monthly as time goes by to see what that data usage looks like finally you get down to system and you can see how much system resource this is using so right now it's using almost nothing really CPU temperature is right where it always sits for a Raspberry Pi CPU load is absolutely nothing and using up a little bit of memory on a Raspberry Pi 3 that it's using is absolutely nothing so this is an absolute great tool for a Raspberry Pi you can see the language setting you can go to advanced nothing really to change here but this is just saying this is where this web server Brunn's is on port 80 it should be on your local network and you should not be exposing this to the Internet anyways and then the console if you need console access you can also get it from here and then finally about rasp ap just tells you what version you're running it's it's kind of a normal about page that you would see it's really cool this is a really nice piece of software I hope that you'll jump out there and get it and try it I like it a lot so before I finish up I want to go back and I want to actually plug in my W lands 0 or my W land 1 is what its gonna be Wi-Fi cards so I'm gonna grab this little USB dongle it's by Eddie Mac's and I'm gonna plug it into a USB port here on the back and we will let the Raspberry Pi have a minute you kind of realize it's there and then we will go back up to configure networking and see if it sees it yeah it does see it okay but it's not setting it to anything yet because it doesn't really know what to do with it so we can go to configure hotspot we want to leave that alone probably configure network but this isn't gonna know which device to use that's kind of the thing is I don't see a way to pick which device it uses so first thing I'm gonna do is reboot this thing and I'm gonna go to system to do that and I'm going to tell it reboot we'll give it just a minute and then we'll go back in and we'll make some adjustments here and see if I completely break this thing right now I'm able to get to the internet whenever it's up and I'll show that before I make any changes just so you guys can kind of see that so I'm waiting and it just disconnected all right I switched it so you can see what's happening so up here at the top you can see the network the Wireless is not connected at this time so we're gonna give it a minute to reboot and then we'll try to connect again if it doesn't connect on its own oh there we go so connection established that's great let's go see if it connected to the one that we want oh no I'm connected to my normal oh no I did yeah so it connected back to it on its own let's just do a let's go back and we're connected back up to it great so I'm gonna go over here to this version of it and I'm just using it through the 192 that's on my Ethernet and it tries to scan let's see if it can scan for their wireless and it works so that's what this does is it scans for wireless networks it finds this one because I set this one up through the supplicant WPA underscore supplicant so if I go here to networking so now we can see that WLAN one actually has a 192.168 type e address this still has the 10.3 so first let me just show that I am still connected to the wrasse Mac which is this hotspot and I'm gonna go to Google actual Google there it is it goes if I go to Ras PAP com there it is it goes so I have internet connectivity because I'm connected through my Ethernet and through my through the Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna unplug the ethernet cable on the back of the Raspberry Pi and you would expect that it would just jump on its own to use the Wi-Fi connection from W LAN one I don't believe that's actually what's gonna happen so now if I hate Google yeah it doesn't go it's gonna spin and then it's gonna give up here in a minute even though I've still got I had two connections it doesn't automatically create that bridge between those two wired networks so they have some instructions I'm gonna plug the ethernet back in so we can get to the instructions give me just a second here okay so in their FAQ they have this section that says can I run wlan0 and Debby LAN one rather than eat zero for my AP and I say yes you can do this it's what they call managed mode and they give you some instructions on what you have to change inside to make this work so first we need to open up the terminal and we're gonna SSH in there we go so first thing they want us to do is change a file and it's in C slash bar /ww slash HTML / includes config dot PHP and I just know because I've had to go find it so CD / bar / www slash HTML / includes and if we do LS you'll see there's a file here called config dot PHP and we're gonna do sudo nano config dot PHP and we are looking for the entry about Wi-Fi so here it is the wack the rasp eye Wi-Fi client interface I'm gonna change that to WLAN one ctrl o and ctrl X to exit and I'm gonna reboot and you can see we're disconnected as it's starting to reboot so we'll wait for it to come back up it shows that it came back up and the connection is established so here it says we need to change this file as well and this is the file where I find it to be a little bit off but we'll go try it so in order to do that I got to plug the ethernet back in I'll give that just a minute and then we'll go and we'll check out our terminal and we need to go and adjust so Nano / g TC slash dhcp CD comp and as you can see this is already a very long confusing looking file but I'm gonna add the lines that they say to add so I'm gonna do a ctrl C to copy here out of the browser that's what I'm doing and I'm just gonna do ctrl shift V and paste it right here and then I'm gonna go ahead and make sure there's a line underneath and we'll do ctrl o to save ctrl X and then in the browser they tell us to do one more thing which is to restart the hostapd service so I'm going to copy that command and I'm gonna paste it in so at sudo systemctl restart host APD service see it makes me nervous when it does that okay took a little time but it looks like it finished hopefully it restarted that service it is on the RAS Mac thing it's on the RAS Mac Wi-Fi it is not connected to Ethernet on the on the Raspberry Pi and I'll show you that so let me actually just switch this over I'm sorry you get to see this but I only have one monitor so we will come and I will do my best to show this to you without dropping the Raspberry Pi but there's no Ethernet plugged in so now let me get this back out of your face because I know that's gonna be annoying to look at and we're gonna go back to the Chrome window here and basically you can see that Google is up so let's just show you that I can change the screen we can go to youtube and it goes so now I've got a wireless for Peter actually working off of my network and we can go back to Google pretty easily here but if I try to go to the actual wireless ap when it's not connected Ethernet I can't get there anymore so I try to go through 209 which is the Wi-Fi connection that's not gonna work so let's go back and we'll do 10 1.3 3.14 1.1 and it's gonna try cuz it kind of thinks it knows like it's just like hey I know what you're trying to do let me try to get there so let's try one other option so let's just do a F config so this is an interesting interface so this is my wireless interface being connected to that Raz Mac now it gets this 192.168 this is this is odd but that's what's making this work so just click on Google still loads so I wonder if we go to 192.168.1 it does ok so that'll get us into our console and why it picked that IP address I don't know let me put in the right thing here and there we go so we're back into our console here I did want to show you and let me switch the screen here so putting in that IP address let us back into our console so now we can come to the hotspot section so this created a a new interface whenever I turned on the wireless ap mode if I turn this off it's gonna turn it back from an AP mode and I would have to go undo all of those changes that I did in the text files there so when we look at the network interfaces we can see that there's this new you ap zero this is our bridged Network and that's what's giving out this address this 192.168 a dress then we look down here at wlan0 and we see that it's getting the IP information from my home network and then it looks like WLAN one isn't getting anything but I do have it set up to be the ones connected to my network so it's an interesting and odd-looking set up here to be honest but it appears to be working it appears to be allowing me to get information from the network so if I go back to my dash you can see that I've got just this laptop that I'm on connected what I'm gonna do is connect with my phone alright so I'm trying to join the Wi-Fi network on my phone it's thinking about it and it's connected now I'm gonna go and start up my recorder here all right it is recording my screen so we will go into Safari here we are at Google and we can just go look for something different there we go so Google is working I'm still connected to that network so I can show you that and I'm on the wrasse Mac Nick work so this is working which is kind of nice and it wasn't too hard to set up I have had to do it a few times to kind of convince myself how things work but all of the steps that I've given you in the order that you've seen them if you run it that way everything should come up working properly all right that's it for this week I hope you enjoyed this I hope you get something out of it it's a really great inexpensive easy way to set up but wireless ap network from a pretty inexpensive device and it's and it's actually really easy for you to get this going so if you check this out look at your system stats I mean this is still using almost zero memory no CPU the heat just hasn't really done anything different so a really great way to set up an AP network if you need one thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed this if you did give it a thumbs up subscribe so that you can see more videos that are coming up in the future have a few more Raspberry Pi projects coming I've got a few home automation things coming all kinds of things that are self-hosted open source and ready for you guys to go get grab and use so I hope you enjoyed this thanks and we'll talk to you next time [Music]

Channel: Awesome Open Source

Views: 37,479

Keywords: wifi, wireless, access point, AP, repeater, bridge, lan, wan, raspap, dongle, usb, edimax, inexpensive, cheap, value, great, open, source, opensource, open-source, self, hosted, selfhosted, self-hosted, free, libre, software, server, web, internet, browser, linux, mac, macos, os x, windows, microsoft, unix, bsd, ios, android, pi, raspberry, desktop, digital, ocean, digitalocean, vps, tutorial, how to, setup, installation, instructions

Id: GdNK2p3RhB0

Length: 45min 6sec (2706 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 01 2020