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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

Powering Up Your WLAN Pi

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Powering On

There is no power button, the WLAN Pi M4+ will boot up as soon as power is provided via either integrated PoE (802.3af) or USB Type-C port.

  1. Connect the Ethernet cable present on your desk

  2. The red activity LED indicates that the unit has been powered on

  3. Look for the green activity LED blinking, this means the OS has been initiated

  4. After a few moments, the screen will come to life.

When you insert a freshly imaged SD card, the initial boot can take up to 120 seconds!

Why? During this time, the WLAN Pi will resize the SD card partition and configure parameters specific to the hardware platform (M4+ / M4 / R4 / Pro).

The SD card present within your WLAN Pi M4+ provided at WLPC should already have been initialized, theoretically you will not experience this long initial boot period.

The USB Type-C port can be used to power the WLAN Pi M4+ from a laptop, battery pack, or 5V power supply.

Note that some older laptops might not be able to provide enough power via USB.

The WLAN Pi M4+ USB-C port supports OTG (Ethernet over USB-C port) data connection. We are excited to tell you more about this in the "Device USB mode (OTG)".

Interacting with your WLAN Pi

There are several ways to interact with your WLAN Pi:

  • Ethernet

  • Wi-Fi

  • Bluetooth (Experimental)

Physical (FPMS)

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