I would greatly appreciate any help that anyone could lend me. I really don't want to broadcast my SSID just to run OctoPrint. Now I am clueless as to what could be going on here. I have tried looking around here for a few days to try and see if anyone had the same issue in the past, and I didn't find anything. I even went a step further and even told my router to give the Pi a static IP address. it isn't connecting to my WiFi and I have no idea why. Then I put the SD card back into the Pi and booted it back up after turning my SSID off aaaaaand. OK! Whatever?! I uncommented the lines, added my router info and added the new line to find the hidden SSID. Launch inSSIDer on the laptop and walk to a place in range.
#FIND HIDDEN NETWORK SOFTWARE#
The software costs 19.99, but you can get a free 7 day trial license.
#FIND HIDDEN NETWORK INSTALL#
For this task, you have to install a wireless network scanner and use it to identify the WiFi networks which exist in your area. Download and install InSSIDer on the laptop. You might need to find all the wireless networks that are broadcast in your area, including those which have a weak WiFi signal and those that have hidden their SSID (network name).
#FIND HIDDEN NETWORK PASSWORD#
To my surprise, the SSID and WPA password for my router wasn't in the text file and the lines were still commented. Here are the steps I took that led me to find the exact location of a wireless router that was hidden out of my sight: Grab a Windows or Mac laptop and charge the battery. Why is there a hidden network on my WiFi Some routers are configured from the factory to broadcast a hidden network for a variety of different reasons. I then shut the pi down, disconnected it from the power and took the SD card to my computer to edit the octopi-wpa-supplicant text file, so I could add the line "scan_ssid=1" after the password to allow it to find the router after I turned the SSID back off. To find a hidden network, you need a WiFi analyzer capable of capturing the wireless activity around you and associating with specific networks. After rebooting from the update, the pi connected to the WiFi again. I went through the startup wizard and I ran the update. I then opened up OctoPrint on my browser using the IP. I rebooted the pi, disconnected the Ethernet cable and watched from my router config to see if it could connect wireless and it did. I had the SSID of my router turned on while I did that to make sure that it could see it.
Here we use the first hidden SSID found in the figure below to do the. I got into raspi-config and gave it the information needed to connect to my WiFi. Scan nearby wireless networks to find APs with hidden SSIDs. I installed it onto the SD card with ease, wired the Pi 3B directly into my router and SSHed into it. This means that the wireless network name of the router will not show on the list.
This is the first time I am trying to run OctoPrint and I just can't get it to connect to my network. Hidden networks are types of wireless networks which have their SSID.