I'm installing pCP6 with a Jivelite touchscreen in my camper. I will run it in AP mode so that I can use wireless players and control it from my phone. But for various reasons I'd like it to also connect to the internet:
- so that when my phone is connected to it I can still reach the outside world
- so that I can use Spotty
- potentially so that I can put a GSM antenna on a mast and get better reception through the AP than I would on my phone (camping places always seem to have lousy reception!).
So I'm looking for advice on whether it's possible under pCP to bridge a USB GSM/3G/4G dongle to the wifi AP, such that a phone connected to the AP will be able to use the GSM internet? I can see that the AP mode settings in pCP6 allow me to bridge the AP to eth0 - can I do that manually with whatever device the GSM modem shows up as? Will extra packages be needed?
Is there a better approach? I think a standalone mobile hotspot (such as this one) is an alternative. The RPi wouldn't have to be in AP mode then - everything would connect to the hotspot - but the drawback is that nothing would work without that hotspot.
- so that when my phone is connected to it I can still reach the outside world
- so that I can use Spotty
- potentially so that I can put a GSM antenna on a mast and get better reception through the AP than I would on my phone (camping places always seem to have lousy reception!).
So I'm looking for advice on whether it's possible under pCP to bridge a USB GSM/3G/4G dongle to the wifi AP, such that a phone connected to the AP will be able to use the GSM internet? I can see that the AP mode settings in pCP6 allow me to bridge the AP to eth0 - can I do that manually with whatever device the GSM modem shows up as? Will extra packages be needed?
Is there a better approach? I think a standalone mobile hotspot (such as this one) is an alternative. The RPi wouldn't have to be in AP mode then - everything would connect to the hotspot - but the drawback is that nothing would work without that hotspot.
