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WLAN Pi Cookbook
2025 M4+
2025 M4+
  • 😎1. Getting Started
    • 🎁WLAN Pi M4+
      • 🖨️Physical Case Design
    • ⚡Powering Up Your WLAN Pi
    • ⚙️Initial setup items
    • 🔼Display and Buttons (FPMS)
    • Device USB Mode (OTG)
    • 🆕WebUI
      • 🎢Speed Test
      • 🔍Network
      • 🧑‍✈️Cockpit
      • ⌨️Terminal
    • 🔵Bluetooth
    • 📺Software Update
    • 📔Quick Reference
    • ⚡Powering Down
    • 💬The WLAN Pi Project
  • 🔦2. Lab: Wi-Fi Scanner
    • 🚨Kismet
      • 🧪Kismet Lab
    • 🎉Windows: WiFi Explorer Pro
    • 🍏macOS: WiFi Explorer Pro 3
  • 🤓3. Lab: Wi-Fi Frame Capture
    • ⚙️Setup Instructions
      • 🪟Windows Setup
      • 🍏macOS Setup
        • 1️⃣ Wireshark (macOS)
        • 2️⃣ Airtool 2
    • 🦈Wireshark Resources
    • 🧪Capture Labs
      • 🤯Wireshark Lab
      • 🍏Airtool Lab
      • 📶Bonus: Capture Different 6 GHz Frames
      • 7️⃣ Bonus Capture Wi-Fi 7 Management Frames
    • 📡Capture beacons in PCAP or CSV format
    • 📱Bonus: Capture using WLAN Pi and iPhone or iPad
    • 🎁Bonus: Passwordless SSH using Public-Private Key Pairs
  • 📊4. Lab: WLAN Pi Grafana
    • 🧨Start Grafana
    • 📈Web-Based Wi-Fi Scanner
    • 📉Monitor Your Internet Connection
    • 📈Build Your Own WLAN Pi Health Dashboard
    • 📶Spectrum Analysis
  • 5. Lab: API into your Pi
    • Intro to the WLAN Pi API
    • Accessing the API
    • API access via Postman
    • Using the WLAN Pi API
    • Stop wpa_supplicant@wlan0
  • 📲6. Lab: The WLAN Pi App
    • Getting Started
    • Connect to your Pi
    • Explore the App
  • 💫7. Lab: Wi-Fi Channel Tool (wifichannel)
  • 📶8. Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 Client
    • ⚙️Connect as a client using wpa_supplicant
    • 7️⃣ Bonus lab: Connect as a Wi-Fi 7 MLO client
    • 📡Bonus lab: Detect faulty antenna
  • 🔎9. Lab: Profiler
    • 🎁Bonus Lab: Extra Profiler tasks
  • 🚀10. Lab: Network Performance
    • ⚡CLI Power Tools
    • ✅Verify Wired Connection
    • ⏬LibreSpeed
    • ⏬Official Speedtest.net CLI Client
    • ⏬iPerf3
      • Bonus Lab: Compile iPerf2 from source
  • 📡11. Lab: Hotspot Mode
  • 🖥️12. Demo: Server Mode
  • 📱13. Demo: Tailscale
    • 🎁Bonus Lab: Remote Access
  • 🔧14. Demo: Wi-Fi Console Mode
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  1. 1. Getting Started

Bluetooth

Connect to your WLAN Pi from your mobile device

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Recent versions of macOS no longer support Bluetooth PAN

Make sure the USB mode switch, located on the Ethernet port side of your WLAN Pi M4+, is in the Host mode "H" position.

In the device mode "D" position, USB lanes to the M.2 slot Bluetooth radio are disconnected and Bluetooth doesn't work.

Lab Objective

The WLAN Pi M4+ has a built-in Bluetooth 5.2 radio, in this lab we will go through pairing a smart device to a WLAN Pi.

  1. Enable Bluetooth pairing mode on your WLAN Pi Via FPMS: Bluetooth > Pair Device​ Your WLAN Pi will be discoverable for 30 seconds​.\

  2. Grab your smart device (iPhone/iPad, Android). We recommend using your mobile device for this lab rather than your laptop. And we say that because laptops don't support this feature.

  3. Switch on Bluetooth and search for nearby Bluetooth devices

  4. Be sure to select your wlanpi-xxx from the list of nearby Bluetooth devices. Be patient, your WLAN Pi may take 10 seconds to appear.

  5. If pairing is successful, FPMS will display a notification indicating the success

  6. If unsuccessful, re-initiate the pairing process by selecting Pair Device from display

  7. Navigate back to the 'home screen'

  8. You should see PAN: 169.254.43.1 displayed. This is your Bluetooth network interface IP address.

  9. Open your mobile browser and navigate to the WLAN Pi WebUI https://wlanpi-xxx.local

  10. You should see the WLAN Pi Web UI landing page.

If you were to perform a LibreSpeed test, right here and now.

What would you 'actually' be measuring?

That's right! You would be measuring the speed of the Bluetooth connection between your mobile device and the WLAN Pi.

You should also double-check that your WLAN Pi is not reachable via some other route, for example, if your WLAN Pi and mobile device were on the same LAN, you might be testing the Wi-Fi connection speed.

How fast is your Bluetooth link?

Once paired, you can easily disconnect and reconnect to your WLAN Pi by selecting it from the list of paired Bluetooth devices on your mobile device.

Recent versions of macOS have removed the GUI to enable Bluetooth PAN. This effectively means that you cannot connect to your WLAN Pi from your Apple Mac running Big Sur and above.

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