Pi keeps dropping wifi and sometimes doesn't connect on boot

As in the title
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MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
i guess i should mention it being a pi3b+
blacksmithforlife
How far away is the router from the pi? How old is the router? Are you using a camera on your printer?
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
router is new, pi is quite close and no camera
blacksmithforlife
router is new
what model?
pi is quite close
1mm, 1m, 2m? "quite close" isn't a measurement. Is there anything between the router and the pi like walls, metal, etc? Are you running any additional to the base RatOS? I have seen other software saturate the network causing the connection to drop
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
Whatever the newest BT model is, only recently had it changed, I have another printer running klipper through the btt pi copy with no connection issues. Close is the next floor up so there's a floor between the pi and the router And the only thing on the SD card for the pi was ratos Once the setup was sorted and I was in mainsail I updated everything in the update manager
blacksmithforlife
Close is the next floor up so there's a floor between the pi and the router
yeah that's not close. a pi3b+ is old so its wifi isn't suited to going through floors/walls
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
Brilliant... Is it worth getting a wifi adaptor for it?
blacksmithforlife
only you can answer that based on your network and possible locations and other factors
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
My question should really have been, will I run I to driver issues or will ratos just use the adaptor?
blacksmithforlife
Not sure - ratos uses /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf so I guess whatever wpa_supplicant is configured to use?
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
Hmmm, I haven't looked at that, hate to be asking what feels like dumb questions, but if I take the ratos sd card out and open it in windows, will I be able to adjust stuff from there?
blacksmithforlife
No dumb questions just dumb answers. Not too much as windows doesn't read linux partitions well.
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
If only it were as easy as stuffing the SD into the btt knockoff and having it work Might have to dig the old Linux laptop out and see if that can do anything Or get a usb wifi dongle and just see what happens
blacksmithforlife
There's a CB1 image now so all you have to move over are the files you touched (like printer.cfg) and then the wpa supplicant or just go through it again with the Rat-OS configurator to set the wifi
MACBEAN
MACBEAN2y ago
Yeah there is that, I'll have a look tomorrow evening I did also order a wifi dongle for experimentation
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