Connect to wireless network

Technical Support
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Hi All,

Brand new here, and just got my VIM3L with the idea of building it into an audio player (I’ll attached a tone board once I get things working the way I want). It works great playing music from USB and local files, but I can’t get it to connect to my wifi network.

I have a Nighthawk X10 R9000 router.

I normally use WPA2 but have also created a zero security guest network with no password to test.

I did remember to whitelist my VIM3L :slight_smile:

I see the networks in the systems connections for CoreElec, but my VIM3L won’t connect to any of them. It tries to associate, but then fails a minute or so later.

What am I missing here?

Thanks
David

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Hello! defaults to dhcp, try manual.

By the way, you can put Volumio as your second operating system (audio player)

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Okay, set it to Manual, and reconfigured my router to not use DHCP, and it still fails.

This is strange to me - My router sees my VIM3L, and my VIM3L sees my router, but I can’t get them to talk.

Good to know about Volumio, but want to get the device running wirelessly first - I have my music on a NAS and want to be able to play from there, or ?? other sources independently from my PC. I could just buy another PC to do it, but the WAF is low there … Khadas is small and ‘cute’ … and comes with a remote instead of a keyboard :slight_smile:

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yes, he knows how to work a local network :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hmm … am I to take that as “it’ll work better on a wired connection”?
That is fine … I have the option to use this as a media system instead of dedicated audio (audio has to be wireless as I use it at work where I have not wired ports).

For home use I’m hesitant about Volumio as I need to be able to control where my signal out is … for music it will be ToneBoard into an Emotiva amp, for movies it will be HDMI (for surround sound) into a Yamaha receiver that handles 5.1 … I can use a tap off the signal to turn the corresponding amp/receiver on/off.

For work, it is all music, so it matters less.
… long term intention was to build 2 … but experimenting first with a single to find out the ‘surprises’ :slight_smile:

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I mean, you can control in the zone of your network, remotely :slightly_smiling_face: