Access Point is not visible even though I get AP Enable success message

[sharmmoh1983]

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[mike-pun]

I am having the same problem... anyone got this working lately?

[hakankaraduman]

Same problem for me

[sabhiram]

Are you guys on Pi3s?

[mike-pun]

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[sabhiram]

If you are able to debug this - I would be interested to know if re-starting the application resolves this and shows the AP. I saw this once on my PI3 and might be some kind of glitch. If I have a few more data points, it will be easier to debug.

[chingling123]

same problem here.... if I reboot the wifi not appears but if I run the code the ap wifi works.. :(

[sabhiram]

oh very interesting - perhaps this is an issue with the startup script.

How are you guys enabling the autostart?

[chingling123]

I tried only in rc.local and via services... the same problem. The ESSID in iwconfig coming with off/any

[sabhiram]

But when this is run from the command line - you confirm that it behaves as expected? Let me try reproducing that first thing tomorrow. Thanks for the reply!

[chingling123]

Yes, if I run in command line it's ok. Another thing that I found is in you regex lines you are trying to find inet-addr and HWaddr and in my ifconfig it's return inet and ether I have changed the regex to work and when you check the ip before turns in ap mode...

[sabhiram]

This might be part of another issue. I will need to think about how to handle different ways in which the inet addr is being reported. Perhaps there is a slicker way to access the required data.

[RuneSamyn]

I had the same issue and I solved it with these 2 lines in the beginning:

• sudo systemctl unmask hostapd
• sudo systemctl enable hostapd

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point-routed.md