Pi keeps dropping wifi and sometimes doesn't connect on boot
As in the title
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i guess i should mention it being a pi3b+
How far away is the router from the pi? How old is the router? Are you using a camera on your printer?
router is new, pi is quite close and no camera
router is newwhat model?
pi is quite close1mm, 1m, 2m? "quite close" isn't a measurement. Is there anything between the router and the pi like walls, metal, etc? Are you running any additional to the base RatOS? I have seen other software saturate the network causing the connection to drop
Whatever the newest BT model is, only recently had it changed, I have another printer running klipper through the btt pi copy with no connection issues.
Close is the next floor up so there's a floor between the pi and the router
And the only thing on the SD card for the pi was ratos
Once the setup was sorted and I was in mainsail I updated everything in the update manager
Close is the next floor up so there's a floor between the pi and the routeryeah that's not close. a pi3b+ is old so its wifi isn't suited to going through floors/walls
Brilliant... Is it worth getting a wifi adaptor for it?
only you can answer that based on your network and possible locations and other factors
My question should really have been, will I run I to driver issues or will ratos just use the adaptor?
Not sure - ratos uses
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf so I guess whatever wpa_supplicant is configured to use?Hmmm, I haven't looked at that, hate to be asking what feels like dumb questions, but if I take the ratos sd card out and open it in windows, will I be able to adjust stuff from there?
No dumb questions just dumb answers. Not too much as windows doesn't read linux partitions well.
If only it were as easy as stuffing the SD into the btt knockoff and having it work
Might have to dig the old Linux laptop out and see if that can do anything
Or get a usb wifi dongle and just see what happens
There's a CB1 image now so all you have to move over are the files you touched (like printer.cfg) and then the wpa supplicant or just go through it again with the Rat-OS configurator to set the wifi
Yeah there is that, I'll have a look tomorrow evening
I did also order a wifi dongle for experimentation