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Pi Config

Notes on the configuration of Raspberry Pis as development hosts for nyan devices.

They can be used for programming and monitoring the ESP32s. They are also running SignalK and taking the role of a boat computer for testing.

AP

Using as a wifi AP for ESP32 lora boards.

Used:

hostapd - for wifi level stuff
/etc/network/interfaces - to assign an IP to wlan0
dnsmasq - to provide dhcp server and dns server on wlan0 to the ESP.
Not done - routing / NAT. ESP probably doesn't need to / shouldn't? talk to the internet.

I tried using NetworkManager for this first but it didn't work. May have been a firewall issue actually, but hostapd working now anyway. NetworkManager also has very limited configuration options.