I am operating a MAX BR-1. I have my starlink, local wi-fi and cellular connected to provide internet access. In my van I have a thermostat device (it is an android device running kiosk) that you have to connect to its personal wi-fi channel, which does not have internet, and then go to a specific ip address 10.10.10.10 to operate the device (turn on, off, set the temperature etc). Is there a way to connect the device’s wi-fi to the peplink and then allow me to get to the 10.10.10.10 address via the internet? This would allow me to access the thermostat when not located by the van and be able to remotely turn on the heat.
I am sure there are technical terms for what I am looking to do but I don’t know them which is making searching the community site hard. Thank you for any help!
you didn’t mention the thero make/model but usually these devices that comes with builtin WiFi AP server will also have a WiFi client that will allow you to connect the device to your “regular” wifi network after initial setup instead of using the builtin WiFi.
If I were you, I would log into the thermo in the way I know (10.10.10.10) and then will look under the network section if I can modify it to connect to my main WiFi network instead. after that you will need to access the device from the IP address assigned by the BR-1 (192.168.50.x if on default config)
@Lynea_Hansen You’re using the RIXEN MCS7 right? I am also trying to make this work and still at a loss. I tried contacting rixens about getting the MCS7 to act as a LAN client ideally with an RJ45 port on the board then having it get DHCP from the peplink router.
I’ve gotten as far as connecting peplink wifi wan to the RIXEN AP. At that point I can reach 10.10.10.10 from my local network when connected to peplink AP. Due to CGNAT from starlink and cellular I cannot get remote user access to work. So I set up speedfusion hub and established speedfusion vpn to it. By doing that I can access 192.168.50.# by forwarding ports on the fusionhub. I can also ping 10.10.10.12 (Interface IP of wifi wan on the peplink) but I’m still unable to reach 10.10.10.10 from fusionhub.
I’m stuck, tried all sorts of static routes, advertising networks, outbound policies and all that.
Yes, it is my Rixen. I still haven’t gotten it all to work together - you’ve tried more than I have. But I just found this youtube channel that has done something and I’ve requested the rixen video be one of the next ones so maybe he will have found a solution that can work for us. Here is the channel https://www.youtube.com/@SmartyVan
About all I can do next is host tailscale. Or put a raspi and remote into it.
InControl does not always bring up the rixen UI reliably unfortunately.