homebridge/homebridge-raspbian-image

Raspberry Pi Zero W: access point never appears. Captive portal fails.

MarByteBeep opened this issue · 1 comments

MarByteBeep commented

Raspberry Pi Model

Raspberry Pi Zero W

Describe The Bug

I have followed all these steps to install the Homebridge image on a new SD card.

I booted Pi Zero W (and attached a monitor) and these are some things I noticed:

  • First it seems to prompt for a new user (blue config screen) including password, and I needed to set a keyboard layout.
  • Once I did all that it continued booting and finally it presented me with the "continue to setup using web interface" message.
  • However no captive portal named "Homebridge WiFi Setup" appears ever, making it impossible for me to complete the setup.

I also tried to pre-configure the WLAN settings in Pi Imager. All to no avail: no captive portal, and no automatic connection to the pre-configured WLAN either. I also tried various power supplies, to ensure enough power was provided to the Pi Zero.

Any ideas?

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MarByteBeep commented

Turned out to be a Zero W with a malfunctioning wifi. I tried using Ethernet to USB (using an adapter). This will also work for Pi Zero without W(iFi).

You can do this by

  • adding dtoverlay=dwc2 to config.txt and
  • modules-load=dwc2,g_ether after rootwait in cmdline.txt

and it works fine!