No WiFi connection with PiAware

[petbytes]

I followed the instructions ‘Do you want to build your own FlightAware PiAware ADS-B Ground Station?’ and got everything running but not wireless. If I connect using Ethernet, it works.

In step 3 Optional: Enable WiFi, I opened piware.config.txt in notepad and entered my wireless-ssid and password:

I attached a screenshot that shows piaware connection as ethernet and status as OFF. I rechecked my wireless-ssid and password and they are both correct.

I reopened piware.config.txt and under # WIRED NETWORK CONFIGURATION, Should piaware use the wired Ethernet port for network access? I changed it to no and that didn’t solve the issue.

[tomvdhorst]

when you login to the device and you lookup the config of the device itself does it give you an ip adress ?
the command is:

ifconfig

Output should show you the eth0 and wlan0 interfaces and their associated ip adresses.
What type of Pi are you using ? type 1 and 2 don’t have Wi-Fi on board.
If you have a type 3 or 4, did you configure the Wi-Fi on the device itself ?

[foxhunter]

Is your WiFi even working and properly connected to the router?

check also via command
sudo iwconfig
on command line

You should receive something similar to this:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"xxx"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: DC:39:6F:xx.xx.xx   
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=31 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=68/70  Signal level=-42 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:984  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Also check the router logfiles to see if the device at least try to connect to the router.
Can also be a router security setting. In some devices you can limit the access to known devices, new devices will not be able to connect, even if SSID and password are correct

[petbytes]

Yes, the WiFi is working. When I got the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, I installed Raspberry Pi OS and it connects to the WiFi just fine. See ifconfig image attached.

When I switch the micoSD card with the one with PiAware, then it doesn’t connect to the WiFi, only with the network cable.

[petbytes]

Here is my sudo iwconfig screenshot which shows my wlan0.

I am still looking into the router logs files. My ISP said I may have to set up another instance of piaware and input its profile definitions so it can pass through the firewall. See screenshot.

| foxhunter
August 14 |

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Is your WiFi even working and properly connected to the router?

check also via command
sudo iwconfig
on command line

You should receive something similar to this:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"xxx"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: DC:39:6F:xx.xx.xx   
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=31 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=68/70  Signal level=-42 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:984  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Also check the router logfiles to see if the device at least try to connect to the router.
Can also be a router security setting. In some devices you can limit the access to known devices, new devices will not be able to connect, even if SSID and password are correct

[petbytes]

The correct image:

| foxhunter
August 14 |

• | - |

Is your WiFi even working and properly connected to the router?

check also via command
sudo iwconfig
on command line

You should receive something similar to this:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:"xxx"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: DC:39:6F:xx.xx.xx   
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=31 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=68/70  Signal level=-42 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:984  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Also check the router logfiles to see if the device at least try to connect to the router.
Can also be a router security setting. In some devices you can limit the access to known devices, new devices will not be able to connect, even if SSID and password are correct

[foxhunter]

WiFi gets an IP adress, so at least this part is working.
As far as i know WiFi is automatically disabled once a LAN cable is connected.

Did you leave the LAN cable connected while trying WiFi?
The status on your router shows “Connection Type: Ethernet”. This is nomally not WiFi but still connected viaLAN

[petbytes]

I tried it without Ethernet cable connected and it the WiFi still did not work. I also edited the piaware-config.txt to say no to wire-network and that didn’t make the WiFi work. I also made sure my SSID Password and password were correct.

WIRED NETWORK CONFIGURATION#

Should piaware use the wired ethernet port

for network access?

wired-network no

# Should piaware use a wifi adaptor

# for network access? You will need to attach

# a supported USB wifi adaptor for this to work.

# change this to "yes" to enable wifi

wireless-network yes

[wiedehopf]

@petbytes

Yes, the WiFi is working. When I got the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, I installed Raspberry Pi OS and it connects to the WiFi just fine. See ifconfig image attached.

Raspbian Lite: ADS B receiver · wiedehopf/adsb-wiki Wiki · GitHub

There really isn’t much upside to using the piaware image if you know how to work the command line at least a little bit.
You can just install dump1090-fa / piaware and be done with it.

[tomvdhorst]

The reservation in your router points to IP adress 192.168.1.85.

The Pi itself is using 192.168.1.66 when on the Raspberry Pi image. Did you set a fixed IP for it or is it DHCP assigned ? When looking at your router screen shot it is expecting a DHCP adress.

Check what is set in the network file
sudo nano /etc/dchcpcd.conf
It should look like this when you have an static IP adress:

interface wlan0
static ip_address=192.168.1.85/24
static routers=192.168.1.254
static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.254