How to switch from home Wi-Fi to hotspot while at home

[Chris Hoffman]

I have my DigiPi running on a Pi Zero 2W.

It works well on my home Wi-Fi and as a hotspot when away from home.

Is there a way to switch to hotspot mode from my home Wi-Fi when I'm home? and then switch back?

I'm testing some uses and want to run in the Hotspot mode.  I'd prefer not to turn off my home Wi-Fi or have to drive down the street to get away from my home Wi-Fi. 

Thank you 

Chris

wa2sem

[Craig]

Short of turning off your wifi router, and drawing ire from your family, I use two
options,

1) boot digipi in a microwave, remove after 60 seconds
2) click Wifi and change the password to something incorrect

Either way, it should go into auto hotspot mode.

if it helps,
-craig
KM6LYW

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[Craig]

correction to option 2, change the SSID to something bogus, that should get you in hotspot mode
-craig

[David Cottee]

And don’t turn the microwave on!!

Sent from my iPhone

On 16 Jan 2025, at 1:20 am, Craig <km6...@gmail.com> wrote:

 correction to option 2, change the SSID to something bogus, that should get you in hotspot mode

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