jabian wrote: In hotspot mode you have wifi. The wifi of your hotspot. What you do not have is internet access (i.e. connection to your home network and router).
You can get internet if you bridge your internal raspi wifi with an ethernet line from your home router.
Also you can add a external wifi dongle and have wlan0 and wlan1. I am not sure but I think you can have one of them connected to your wifi network and the other generating the wifi hotspot.

Not an expert, others could give you more specific details.


Thanks! I am not a wi-fi expert either. I just misinterpreted the write-up and instructions. And you are correct, I was able to connect an ethernet cable and then get internet on my PC through local hotspot on the Astroberry. I will probably just disable the wi-fi connection all together and keep it operating solely as a hotspot. I should only need internet when doing updates. If I ever determine a need for it, I will look into getting a dongle.

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