Used SeeStar in station mode this morning. Shut down via app, transported inside house and now no longer can connect to my WiFi in station mode. Seestar will only connect to internal SeeStar WiFi. Any suggestions?
Station Mode stopped working
Also tried reset, deleted and re-installed phone app and no change
Also tried to reset/restart the home router or anyway the home wifi you connect to?
Just tried that and no change. but thanks for the suggestion
Problem solved. It was indeed working in station mode, however, somehow in file explorer SeeStar was hidden. I just selected show hidden and the SeeStar started showing up again under network in file explorer.
Station Mode sometimes works for me, but most times does not. I wish ZWO would fix this, as its a cool feature when using S50 @ home.
What I would really like is to be able to control the S50 through the SeeStar app on my phone and at the same time still have Internet access on my phone. I do not know if this is even possible or not, but if it is, I was not able to find out how.
My connection to the S50 drops occasionally, at least the acquisition keeps working while I am disconnected. I understand the need for BlueTooth for the initial WiFi pairing of the S50 with the phone and the local WiFi but why do I have to be in BlueTooth range (10 meters max) every time I turn the S50 on?
starnet it does work, WHEN Station Mode works. ZWO, needs to clean up that feature, so it always works
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starnet It's not really that you have to be in bluetooth range. It's just that the Wifi signal is extremely low powered (probably to extend battery life) so the Wifi range itself is very low. Can see the wifi signal bars drop as you walk away from it or go sit in your car. Same is true of my other tracker (Benro Polaris with even worse range).
Anyway, I've also been trying to figure out a way to keep internet access in the field on my phone while also controlling the Seestar, and I haven't got it yet on the same device. I did do a test where I connected Seestar's station mode to the wifi hotspot on my phone and then also connected a tablet to the same hotspot, and it now has both internet access through my phone's hotspot, and is able to see the Seestar, which would let me download images from the Seestar, edit and post to community all from the same device (as I can do with station mode at home). But if you try to connect phone to Seestar it loses internet access, and breaks the hotspot too.
8 months later
An external antenna connector (SMA) would be nice. There are many small antennae available for 2.4 and 5 GHz