Does PiFi allow client to client comm on the wifi network? My devices can connect to the wifi and use the VPN fine, but don’t seem to be able to talk/see to each other. I need to have my PC able to talk to other devices on the pifi network.
Client-to-client communication should work fine on PiFi — features like casting, AirDrop, SMB file sharing, etc., are supported. Could you let me know which specific client-to-client functionality you’re having trouble with?
Happy to help find a fix for your issue but would need to replicate at my end
Can’t ping other devices. Can’t manage wifi connected camera. The LED not showing VPN status is my issue also.
I think I’ll start again from scratch (load to the ssd). I’ll let you know how it goes.
Started fresh with downloaded image to new SD. Removed SSD and suspect it is faulty.
I have multiple devices connected; android phone, 2 windows PCs, and reolink camera. All devices can see and access pifi shared drive. PCs have discovery turned on and pifi network set as private.
No device can interact with any other; cannot ping, no access to shares, cannot access camera. And the LED on the pi 5 is solid orange regardless of status of VPN.
Any advice?
I can see LED issue on this weeks beta build - so will fix that. I can ping devices in my testing so I’m trying to re-create so I can solve it.
Can you confirm if when disabling Adguard - you see the same behaviour:
- Visit PiFi App > Settings > AdGuard Home.
- Tap the toggle (highlighted in yellow in image) then tap Disable AdGuard
Toggling AdGuard had no effect. Tried toggling VPN and it had no effect either.
Can you post screen shots of the default firewall rulebase? There must be something isolating the wifi clients from each other. BTW, I am using the pifi kit wirelss adapter if that makes any difference.
Will investigate - you can see firewall both at LuCI (192.168.3.14) or via shell (vi /etc/config/firewall)
You can also browse the config files at pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi/Raspberry Pi 5/files/etc/config at main · pifi-org/pifi-openwrt-raspberry-pi · GitHub
Firewall config files match.
Ok
There are new firmware images at the moment approx every couple of weeks for Pi 5. I’ve not yet been able to replicate, but I will set up a some IP cams and different Windows machines setup and try my best to see if I can see this behaviour so any potential config issue can be patched on next build
If I can get same behaviour at my end then I can push fix on the next image - if ok I’ll reach out if logs/info would be helpful when I’m testing this
I’ll do a more exhaustive compare of my config files to the github versions. It is behaving as if the ‘isolate=1’ parameter is set in the openwrt wireless config file. Both the config and LuCI do not have ‘isolate’ set.