Connecting the hydrosys4 system to your home WiFi is a quite straightforward action.
Go to the "Network" page, choose your WiFi network among the list of available WiFi network, and insert the password.
Anyway although this is going to work in most of the cases, sometimes due to different WiFi setting, it is required to modify the IP address setting of the hydrosys4.
In case of problems, the following Router WiFi settings should be verified:
1) Gateway IP address starts with 192.168.1.xx
2) WiFi network uses the WPA2 encryption.
In case the Point 1) To understand which IP addresses range your router provides to the attached wifi devices, you can enter your WiFi router setting and check the IP addresses of the dhcp clients. Otherwise you can check IP address of any PC connected to the wifi and see if it starts with 192.168.1.
If the three numbers of the IP address are not 192.168.1 (in most cases it might be 192.168.0.), you can experience the following behavior:
The WiFi network created by the System (hydrosys4-5172) will disappear, but it is not possible to reach the System under the home WiFi typing the default IP address in the web-browser (192.168.1.172:5172). Most probably the system is successfully connected to the Home WiFi but with different IP address. If you have a Linux or Apple device (windows may also work), first thing you can do is to try to connect with the localhost name, go to the web-browser and type the following address: hydrosys4-172.local:5172.
If you can connect to the system using this address then go to the "Network" page and see if there is a Warning Message.
If the above address does not work, then restart the system (power OFF - ON) and connect to the System own WiFi network "hydrosys4-5172" within 3 minutes, go to Network page and check if there is a Warning Message.
The warning message should include the Gateway IP address where you can check the first 3 numbers.
If the first 3 numbers of the Gateway IP address are not 192.168.1.xx you are required to change the Hydrosys4 default IP address. Go to "Network" click "Advanced Setting" button, and change the IP address using same first three numbers of the Gateway IP address. (e.g if the first 3 numbers are 192.168.0, then use the following IP address 192.168.0.172)
Once you chick submit, the IP address will change and the connection with system will be interrupted. Type the new address in the web-browser and you should be able to connect. Remember the new IP address will be the default address for the future system access.
In case the Point 2) is not verified, then you require to change your WiFi setting. in general is recommended to use the WPA2 encryption for your WiFi security.
Hi Hydrosys, to find out who is connected to your home Wi-Fi the best thing that can be done is to check your router’s web interface. As your router hosts your Wi-Fi network, so it has there is higher possibility that it has the most accurate information about which devices are linked to it. The best way for gaining access to your router’s web interface applies. For further information try https://appuals.com/how-to-check-who-is-connected-to-your-wifi-network/ . To check the IP address you can go to your computer’s gateway IP address through the Control Panel. You can also run the ipconfig /all command in a Command Prompt window. After that just plug this IP address into your web browser’s address bar and tap the option of Enter. Now check your router’s documentation. In case you haven’t arranged a custom password and passphrase, you require performing a search or check out the documentation to find the default for your model of router. I hope this would work in your case. Just try this and let me know whether it does work or not.
Hello there,
This is quite strange, I personally use the raspberry PI3 and as I know many others are actively using the raspberry PI3 with the Hydrosys4 SW and never seen this type of issue.
The SW uses the same procedure to scan the WiFi both with RPI0w and the RPI3, they have the same wifi chipset.
The only thing I can suggest is to use a good power supply for the RPI3 as it uses more power than the RPI0. When power is not enough strange things happen.
Hello, first of all - project i great really thank you. I have issue with connecting to the home wifi using Hydro. When i try to connect through network tab - when we scan : there is no Available WiFi networks. It does not work with Raspberry pi 3 but it works with raspberry pi 0
Ok, 2nd time did it. After you log on the 1.172 address on the Hydrosys AP and change the address to X.172, you reboot, wait for it to broadcast the Hydrosis AP again. Log on directly to the Pi again and then perform log on to the guest network. You go through the process 2 times.
Part of my issue is I don't know how to get to the command line. I'd edit wpa_supplicant.conf if I could get there. I'd also like to update/upgrade the Raspbian installation. How do I get to the command line? I've created the ssh file in the wpa_supplicant directory by editing on a virtual machine.
Tried again, unresponsive. The IOT AP has a different password. The Network / Advanced Setting has a password field for the Hydrosys4-172 AP, but if I change tht to the IOT network password will the Pi be able to log onto the IOT net? I apologize for the confusion.
OK, thank you. Will try it again. I had tried that once and it was unresponsive. Maybe I didn't wait long enough. -random
Hi, that is very easy, go to network page, scroll down and click on the "advanced setting" button. Then change the IP address (e.g. 192.168.4.172) and click submit.
Sorry to bring up anold topic... I'm trying to get the system configured to use an IOT guest network. It can connect to the 192.168.4.xxx guest, but attempts to retain the 192.168.1.172 IP. This conflicts with my internal network on 192.168.1.xxx that the guest network is hanging off. How do I change the IP of the Hydrosys4 system on the RPi? I don't want it on the internal network on 192.168.1.172. TIA
Thanks very much for help,got it working, You do great work,
Need help ,setup,can see in wifi hydrosys4-172 when I insert password it said connected no internet access,can not find address in Google,any info Thanks, peadar