Hello, have been having issues with our tablet not connecting to the raspberry pi hotspot. The Pi shows it’s emiting the hotspot with no issue, but the tablet is unable to connect. Is there a way to reset the connection settings?
Are you connecting the tablet to the Pi, or the Pi to the tablet? Generally, it’s best to connect the Pi to the Tablet by creating a hotspot on the tablet. Have you tried that?
If you’re on a Pi 5, you can simply connect a monitor and use the Rasbpian OS GUI to adjust the network settings. That is how they have been set up in the first place.
But unless you messed with that previously, the network settings should not have changed.
The android device we are using cannot establish a hotspot, and we can’t figure out a way to change the password for the Pi’s wifi. We did look at the network settings and confirmed the password is ‘krakensdr’
And the Android device still won’t connect to the hotspot?
On some Androids there is a setting that will block a connection if it has no internet, which obviously the Pi 5 doesn’t have (unless its also connected to an ethernet internet connection).
You’ll need to look up where it is for your particular phone. For example, on my Samsung’s it always asks when I connect to the hotspot if I want to keep this connection active or not, because it has no internet connection. If you choose No, it’ll stop connecting to the hotspot, and move back to a previous wifi connection.
Thank you for your insight, but I can find no such setting.
The issue is that it lists the password as incorrect. I have checked the Pi and found that the necessary password is “krakensdr”, but inputting that on the android device prompts a response that the password is incorrect.
Sadly in that case I’m not sure. The ‘krakensdr’ password is correct.
You could try just delete the password in the manager and try without any password.
I’m unfamiliar with the manager you’re referencing. Would that be a line of code entered in the terminal, or something accessed through the Pi’s network settings?
I’m referring to the network connections manager GUI in the Raspbian OS. You should be able to open that just by right clicking the network icon on the top right (after attaching a screen to the Pi). Then it’s just a simple GUI that you can see all the network settings in.