Setting up OBi202/wireless adapter to work in a new WiFi Network w/o a computer.
chdyoung:
I recently purchased an OBi202 with wireless adapter, and was surprised that there is no option to connect to any available open WiFi network.
Unless there is some advanced option that I did not find, the only way to connect the OBi202 with a wireless network is to connect a computer to the wired LAN port, open a web GUI, and select from a list of visible wireless networks (or enter the SSID of a hidden network), enter the password if needed, and then connect.
If the hotel requires that you open a web page on your wireless device prior to allowing internet access, you are out of luck because there is no provision for this in the OBi202.
My wish list (but not holding my breath):
- if no remembered WiFi is available, have an option to automatically connect to an open WiFi with the strongest signal ( no computer required except one time when setting this option).
- allow a wireless connection with a tablet or smart phone in order to set up a connection with a WiFi access point
guyinsb:
Everyone may have figured this out by now, but a fairly simple technique to configuring the OBi202 wifi using just a smart phone of tablet is described on the page
http://obiconnect.com/wifi
I originally had trouble after configuring several SSID/pw pairs; still not sure what I was doing wrong,
but after a reset to defaults (***8 1), and configuring using an iPad with the above technique, then using only the
web admin interface, I now have two SSID/pw pairs configured, with good operational results. You can turn off
the wifi router to which the OBi has connected, and in about a minute the OBi will connect to the secondary SSID.
Then reverse the power situation, and the OBi reconnects to the primary SSID.
Note; in the process, I did discover that if two wifi routers are using the same channel, the OBi has trouble connecting reliably. My router and a neighbor's router were both using channel 11, which apparently was the cause of a problem. When I switched my router to channel 1, the OBi connected very reliably.
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