Orange PI Lite does not see smartphones wifi hotspots

jazzl0ver · October 8, 2020

Hi,

root@orangepilite:~# armbianmonitor -u
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I'm trying to connect my PI board to my smartphone's phone hotspot. I tried with different phones (ASUS Zenfon, Huawei P10, iPhone 11) - "nmcli dev wifi" does not display my hotspots, however nearby computers and the phones themselves do see the hotspots.

The PI finds many wifi networks around and use one of them w/o issues:

root@orangepilite:~# nmcli dev wifi
IN-USE  SSID              MODE   CHAN  RATE        SIGNAL  BARS  SECURITY
*       fbk.info          Infra  6     270 Mbit/s  70      ▂▄▆_  WPA2
        TP-Link_4339      Infra  4     270 Mbit/s  57      ▂▄▆_  WPA2
        dlink-25C4        Infra  2     270 Mbit/s  49      ▂▄__  WPA1 WPA2
        Pavel             Infra  13    270 Mbit/s  47      ▂▄__  WPA2
...

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks in advance!