by johnbanks » 14 Aug 2016, 20:16
Frank ...
I absolutely agree with you. What you are proposing will cover two different groups of users:
Those with wifi but no access to a wired LAN who wish to set up RuneAudio using wireless only and which they may subsequently also use to stream music & web radio.
Those who want to control RuneAudio from a tablet, smart phone, etc in the car or holiday location without wifi or in a cabin in the woods, etc – their music being on a USB stick or drive. Of course, these users will have needed access to a wired LAN to initially set up their RPi.
The current forum activity (dror, Stino, cmh714, BAZA, jojo, Mat, rathmannm & keithdw) seems to be focused on the second group & Wireless AP. And several of us have tried the create_ap script.
Over the past couple of days, I’ve spent several hours on this with only partial success (= failure) – RuneAudio reports as being connected to the AP but with unknown encryptation and I cannot connect to the AP from my laptop. (Also the popular EdiMax wifi adaptor was a complete pain to deal with because of its driver problem).
My Eureka moment was your post earlier today when you stated “The create_ap script and the way RuneAudio handles network do not fit.”
So I’ll stop wasting my time (but always a learning experience) and await your promised How To.
Frank, is there a chance you could release some early ‘alpha’ information that a few of us could try?
Thx
PS: My current holiday solution is an Rpi just as a Wireless AP and a second RPi with RuneAudio
Guess so.. but no offense the joke is on me. If you search you can see that most of my posts are in this subject (of getting a reliable AP configuration with internet sharing), so i'm sort of biased here when answering to your question. 
