Add either 5GHz STA or ability to disable local hotspot

wizzlebippi

STA mode is nice, but there needs to be a better/faster way to allow wireless control from a home network. The two options I can come up with are allowing 5GHz with STA mode (2.4GHz local AP with 5GHz uplink maybe, assuming you can split the radios that way), or disabling the local AP when a known network is detected.

w7ay

wizzlebippi allowing 5GHz with STA mode

The ASIAIR (or strictly speaking, the underlying Raspbian OS) already allows the WiFi Station Mode to be steered to the 5 GHz band.

The ASIAIR itself (for some brain damaged reason, probably to make it easy on the 1,2,3 folks) only allows initial connections at 2.4 GHz. However, a wireless router that has the ability of band steering has the ability to steer the WiFi device to the 5 GHz band.

My eero mesh network does that to my ASIAIR (both Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi 4 versions). Check to see if your router has that ability, and if your other devices don't mind being band steered. Raspbian does it behind ASIAIR's back.

Chen

wizzlebippi

That would be fantastic if I could convince my ASIAIR to join my mixed network. I messed with every setting Ubiquiti has attempting to get that to work, but it refused to connect. Once I gave up on that and created a 2.4GHz only SSID on the same network I finally got it to connect.

I like being in my warm house with the scope outside, but even at 1MB/s it still takes a minute to download a .fits file for viewing. I know I can plug the ASIAIR into Ethernet, but that's another thing to setup and take down.

franco

Shouldn't be that slow even on 2.4GHz

wizzlebippi

I had the guy on Etsy mod my ASIAIR with an eternal antennal for a 23db improvement. If I'm connected directly using 2.4GHz, outside, and in line of sight within 50ft, I can get 5-6MB/s. Connected using STA over my network, I'm struggling at 1MB/s. If you have any insights on how to fix this, I'd like to see them.

franco

wizzlebippi my AAPro is out of range of my home wifi so I have a repeater which is about 3m away. In the house I connect to 5GHz and get 3MB+ image uploads. Nothing special.

wizzlebippi

franco Range isn't my problem. I have plenty of signal strength and speed where I typically set up. I also moved my ASIAIR from the scope to a tripod leg to ensure the antenna is always facing my house and not occluded by the scope or wiring.