Cannot Get WAN to work

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I make it through many of the initial steps, but then get stuck. The ethernet cable is connected to my switch when I start up the RPi. IT asks me to switch to WAN. Which i click on but then it is stuck there. I try going back and skipping that part. It then says updating timezone and it is now stuck there. If I restart the program, it forget my earlier set password. Any ideas? It is s RPi/5 with 4G RAM. I can see the RPi connected to my router at 192.168.0.15. If I try and SSH to it using root, my connection is refused.

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Ok so 192.168.0.15 doesn’t sound right (the default IP of PiFi is 192.168.3.14) - one thing that can happen is if PiFi is set to LAN and wired to a router it can inherit the main router IP (but as PiFi hasn’t yet been setup and WAN is the default I don’t think that’s the case here)

It’s more likely what you’re experiencing is your phone/device not communicating properly with PiFi (can be a number of reasons) - first one I’d be checking is that you don’t have a software-based VPN or iCloud Private Relay enabled as that would stop you communicating with local devices such as PiFi

Can I ask where you’re seeing 192.168.0.15 (if you go to WiFi Settings on your phone whilst connected to Pi - if you click the settings cog on Android or the blue (i) icon on iOS - what does it show under Gateway IP/Router?

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I am having the same issue. i have a pi4 with openwrt installed. I just sysupgraded to pifi but kept the original settings. i am able to connect to the pi on bóth android and windows and surf the net. but I cannot seem to get the app to work on my android despite manually setting the default ip to the current pi ip( not xxx.3.14). Should I bother with the app? I can ssh and use the web gui. not sure why the app isn’t working tough

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Personally, I would bother with getting it working with app (it’s a big part of what makes it a smoother experience)

When you are setting the IP manually you’re setting this to the address you can reach LuCI at?

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I would 100% recommend a clean install - PiFi has various different configuration changes and dependencies and I’m not sure ‘keep settings’ on vanilla OpenWrt would work well, certainly possible that it would have issues.

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To install clean, you can basically factory reset since you’ve already sysupgrade:

Open LuCI > System > Backup / Flash Firmware > “Perform Reset” or “Reset to Defaults” (wording may vary).

Or if you have SSH working firstboot -y then reboot would also work

Post reset the default will be 192.168.3.14 so I’d set that in the app (reset to default)

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