How to prevent the drone from connecting to its internal network ("Aero-xxxxx") on startup?

[DKuro1]

Hi,

Is there any way to make the drone connect to my own network instead of "aero-xxxx" on startup?

Daniel

[Octavian_C_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hello Daniel,

Thank you for your interest in the Intel Aero drone.

In order to have internet access on Aero board it's possible to switch it to client mode so it connects to your Access Point instead of being an Access Point itself. We'll use the standard connman.

Here's the procedure:

• First you need to disable AP mode which is the default one:

nmcli c down hotspot Connection 'hotspot' successfully deactivated (D-Bus active path: ... nmcli c modify hotspot connection.autoconnect no

• Scan WiFi networks with nmcli dev wifi command. Example:

nmcli dev wifi  ABCD-C072-5 Infra 157 54 Mbit/s 79 *** WPA1 WPA2  MYOFFICEWLAN Infra 44 54 Mbit/s 75 *** WPA1 WPA2 802.1X  LabWLAN Infra 44 54 Mbit/s 75 *** WPA2 802.1X  AndroidHotspot Infra 44 54 Mbit/s 74 *** WPA2 802.1X  OfficeWLAN2 Infra 1 54 Mbit/s 74 *** WPA2 802.1X

• Connect to one network by giving the desired ssid and passkey. From the example above we can connect to ABCD-C072-5 with:

nmcli dev wifi connect ABCD-C072-5 password 12mysecretpassword34

With this configuration it will try to autoconnect to this network every time you boot Intel Aero board.

You can find more information on our wiki: https://github.com/intel-aero/meta-intel-aero/wiki/08-Aero-Network-and-System-Administration# networking-internet-access 08 Aero Network and System Administration · intel-aero/meta-intel-aero Wiki · GitHub

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Octavian

[idata]

Hello Daniel,

Thank you for your interest in the Intel Aero compute board.Do you require any more assistance regarding this issue?Regards,Octavian

[JByrn2]

I found that when I restarted the drone it also restarted the hotspot. I added "nmcli c down hotspot" to the file /etc/rc.local and now it is automatically picking up the wifi network.