Raspberry Pi Travel Router - RaspAP (2024) 

Thank you, Great video and you make the process so easy.

This just helped me so much. I had a problem and didn’t know what to do but this updated one really helped me so much. Thanks so much!!

Awesome. I just received my PCIe X1 Hat and my mPCIe hat. Both work with the 2.5gbps dual Eth cards. Cant wait to try this build

incredibly thankful for this video

Thank you so much for this!

I bought the panda wireless AC adapter since it seems to be universally compatible according to raspberry pi documentation. Working great. I also skipped all that stuff about switching the wlan0 and wlan1 connections. I tried it on an earlier build and couldn't get it to connect to the internet for some reason afterwards, so I redid it all from scratch, letting it default the devices.

Thankyou for your help, I can build easyly.

Thanks for this great video, really helpful Just wondering if you can take it further one more step and explain how to install and connect travel NAS to it this will be the ideal scenario for someone traveling long distances (10-14 hours) with family, so they can use on a plane for example to share media privately

I'm new in the world of linux and have used raspberry pi to get started. I'm a disaster preparedness consultant, trying to build a small device for computer communications; a secure travel router being first on my list of necessary items. Thus far this video has proven to help with merging a travel router with a linux OS and next will be a media server, all in one. Thanks for this video, it seems to be a direction I'll need to go; however I still need to confirm how secure it is versus using OpenWRT. I like the RaspiAP GUI because it's more user friendly than OpenWRT. I did get the Panda dual band USB dongle to work (it wasn't easy, but I did it). Now I just need to move forward with getting the media server installed and see if it'll work. Let me know if you're interested in looking over my build. Until next time, and don't forget to embrace those evil dice ;-)

No it still works made it yesterday - only change i made is 64 bit version And used monitor and keyboard to install eveything

Great video and very well explained. Thank you. I use a USB 3 gigabyte Ethernet adaptor as the connection to the internet, where there is a cable available but switch it to a USB 3 wifi 6 adaptor when there is no cable but use your set up for the Wlan0 connection for the devices.

hello, great guide, I was wondering if I can install tailscale on top of this? Thanks

Hi, excellent tutorial! Very useful! I would like to use this to share with further at a CoderDojo is there a way to set this up using captive portal so that when a kid shows up they can connect to an open WiFi network, be authenticated locally then get filtered access to the wider internet?

Very cool. will it work with 2 of the ac wifi dongles to get you connected on the lan side at ac speeds instead of just the n speeds of the built-in adaptor?

Thank you

Thanks for the video. Followed you instructions and can connect to the raspap. Can not get local networks to show up. My wlan0 shows down which I assume is preventing me any connection to the internet. Any suggestions on how to get wlan0 up and connected. Thanks

If I have the old Rasap and do updates to the OS will it still work? Also can you get the older version if you don't want to buy a dongle? Although I only used ethernet on my setup but will be traveling soon and want a portable one for hotel wifi.

This is great!!

Nice video, What about if I want to use the build in network adapter instead of wifi?

Hi, fantastic tutorial here. Does this works with ethernet instead of the Wlan0 side and the wifi hotspot for the..herm.. wifi part (wlan 1) ? Thx !

Thanks 👍

This is awesome, thank you for this informative video. Does RaspAp work with captive portals like a hotel wifi?

Hello , good video. Is it possible to use open wifi for wifi client and built a wpa2 hotspot. It doesn't work for me in this combination.

love u man

is there any way/trick how to only use the on board wifi interface?

raspap cannot combine with casaos even though the port has been changed. It seems like raspap blocks services running on systemctl how i can fix?

I worked on this the last few days and had moved on. I read that the uap0 AP as repeater is virtual and is experimental. I just found that it wasn't a reliable solution. I found the wifiAP built into Bookworm worked but needed to be run as a computer with mouse keyboard and monitor. So if WRT or RaspAP would work I would prefer it. So with your thoughtful and timely update I may give RaspAP another shot. Thanks. (Not Working) Everything was exactly as explained. Could connect but the DNS on WAN1 wasn't able to access the internet. WAN0 could however. I may plug a way a little but now I'd have to reimage and start over. Looked like my adapter was registered and seen by RaspAP. I wonder how little consumer travel router's firmware is so dependable.

any suggestions for a 802.11ac usb 3 or greater dongle?

Can u still use Ethernet cable at the end, so I use Ethernet on the router to the pi, or won’t that work? Also can I use an Ethernet cable from raspberry pi to a laptop? Do I need an adapter so usb to Ethernet or does the Ethernet port work already for it?

Could i use the network cable to connect to the hotel socket and have the build-in wlan from the pi 3B to setup as my hotspot?

The USB wifi dongle in the description does not show as wlan1 - how did you install the driver?

Does the RaspAP software allow for "secondary login" i.e. after you've connected to, say, Starbucks' Wifi, or a hotel network, it requires a subsequent login or confirmation?

Can i connect my pihole and wireguard to the conection of RASPAP?

What about those capture portal sites on public networks?

How do we get connected to the Hotel network? They have that authentication page that comes up.

2 things that I think is risky: 1. You should definitely change the admin password... (and admin user name as well if possible). 2. Login seems to send unencrypted user/password when you are simulating connecting to a public AP hot spot - this is my warning signal that it should not be used - unless that behavior can be changed! So maybe 1 and a half. I really like your video since it is down to earth, everybody should be able to understand it, and accelerating the time spending watching installations ... Thank you - and I hope that my couple of risky issues are not hurting your feelings (they were not meant to!) Keep up the good work!

when i delete wpa_supplicant and other file, after reboot it says error in httpd or something and hotspot is not appearing. What do i do?

@everydaytechtv, how would you set up the RaspAP to work with a hotel’s captive portal? Does it have the capability to allow you to register? That’s what I’m beating my head against the wall with. I don’t want my clients to deal with that login.

Cool Video! Many thanks. Setup was easy with it and it worked! But what about securying the PI with a Firewall? When using it in "public Wifi". As far as I can see, everything is open, inbaoun and outbound

Does this with with a captive portal?

what i noticed is that if you have the wifi dongle in when doing this it will use that automatically but if you plug it in after raspap is installed it uses it as the hotspot

How do you get around a Capture portal at a hotel or starbucks

Does raspiAP support using a USB 4G modem instead of piggy backing on another wifi network?

must it be pi os lite ..cant i use the full raspberry pi os

Just as a general curiosity question... if you had 2 old Raspberry Pi's 2B (gosh I can't tell the specs straight from my head...google... 0.9GHz, 1GB SDRAM) what would you use them for nowadays?

good video but regretfully all links are US related links to Amazon...same stuff cannot be found in europe and finding a good usb dongle is a formidable quest

Seems like this would be attractive to try on a Pi Zero 2 W, which is wonderfully small and uses little power.

Thanks for the video! There is a hell of a lot more to any wifi (or radio) performance than just its type standards. With any radio, and wifi is just a radio, it is all about the antenna. In the military, we regularly transmitted across the planet with just a few watts of power...with the correct antenna. I dont see what wifi dongle you are using, but if it's a separate antenna (vs those ones that just look like a thumb drive) it should perform much better than wlan0's on board antenna. Ideally you'd also want to crossband repeat (in otherwords use 2.4g to connect to the hotel wifi or other internet access point and 5g setup your travel router hot spot. (or vice versa.) If not, youd at least want to make sure the channels being used are as far apart as possible or you will only be overloading wlan0 when wlan1 transmits, or vice versa. You'd also prefer to have as much separation as possible between the two antenna (meaning wlan0's on board antenna and wlan1's usb attached antenna). There are times you'd want to use the superior range of wlan1 with a good antenna as your hotspot and there are times you'd probably want it as the connection to the access point providing internet.

can i connect to my own wiregourd server i don't want rasap to be a server for wireguard

Question since your home wifi network has a password and lets you connect and it doesn't have a gate in front it's easy. Public WiFi hot spots often have a website where you must either login or agree to some terms before you have a valid internet connection. How can this be achived with RasAP?

Thanks for the updated video - much appreciated and can't wait to try. I'm curious what anyone's experience has been with the RaspAP software itself? On my last installation, it was *super* unstable.. I'd get everything working, try to change one lil thing and it would all fall to pieces. Fingers crossed RaspAP on this installation. THX for the guide!

Hi and thank you for this update. Im having an Issue no internet for connected clients. I followed your instructions to a T... my pi connected to a wifi client and has internet. But when connecting to the raspi_webgu SSID, clients dont have internet. I noticed clients connected dont appear in the Dashboard > connected clients either... I tried everything in the FAQ but no dice. Any advice?

When I reboot the system, my wlan1 gets disconnected. What should I do? I have to access the RaspAP interface and connect the Wi-Fi every time I reboot the system... Thank you for the video!!

I love the fact that rpi's do not feature emmc storage in its default version.

Can i make it that the raspberry pi is its own wifi network and doesn’t rely on my home wifi

Quick question to save me a google. Does the raspap connect to captive portals like in hotels

Can this works on those hotel WiFi that has another login webpage that need us to key in username n password separately?

After deleting the network manager and what, my pi isn't showing up anywhere and nor did that ip address you said work. Any suggestions?

Pls help it was giveing my phone or devices a ip

802.11ac (5Ghz) has shorter (not longer) range than 802.11n (2.4Ghz). 802.11n signals are heard over longer distances than 802.11ac. However 802.11n cannot achieve the throughput of 802.11ac so 802.11ac is better when the client device has a good signal from the AP (i.e. is physically close enough to the AP).

Thanks for sharing this, wondering if this might help with extending our home network....

can one setup a VPN with this?

Most Access points now have restrictive portals, does this solution have the ability to join them?

does it work with captive portals?

I know this isn't a help desk and I like the video and I can follow along as I have watched it maybe 6 times and counting. BUT I get everything set-up and configured, I can connect to the hotspot, but I get no internet from the wifi I am connected to on the Pi...so the pi is connected to wifi and I am connected to the pi, but it says no internet connection.

Great video; I've been trying to get RaspAP to work consistently on a Raspberry Pi 5 so that I can use it as a Travel NAS (Emby Server, SAMBA, Navidrome and Syncthing via Docker Containers) but it just seems soo inconsistent to get the Hotspot to actually function; I'm getting close to just buying a Travel Router.

ssh: Could not resolve hostname pi-hotspot: Name or service not known. Now what?

While the geek in me wants to try this; I have some GL.inet devices that do essentially the same thing but far less involved to get rolling. I'll probably try it once for the experience on a day where I get bored. I have noticed that while my devices like my laptop and tablet work well in most cases, in some fringe areas where signal is low'ish, the GL.inet devices do pull in better signals; This RaspAP has a similar promise to a degree; who knows what I'll do .. ( I carry my gl.inet router in a small waterproof case in the car, complete with powerbank and cables. ). If you don't have a travel router, making one does sound like a nice option. What I like about the RaspAP concept: Separate radios where the gl.inet devices use a single radio; If it works well, I can certainly adopt it. Having separate radios is a good reason to give it a whack.

So this is nice. Love the video. But, why? What’s the benefits? Why not just connect to the public WiFi? I have ideas but curious why you don’t offer any benefits…?

Why is this better than just connecting to hotel wifi using your VPN? I’m not dissing this. Don’t get me wrong. I’m going to make one 😂. Just curious about one vs the other.

Would it be a pi zero enough to run this?

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why not chose Banana Pi BPI-R3 Mini

Why not just instal OpenWRT on the Pi?

Please use dark mode in a terminal. Otherwise good video

Make it wide enough to hold a credit card or two, back it with those plates to block credit card scanners, add the coins. You would a have a “legal” and court defendable wallet … that has an extra feature or two.

Note: The default username NEEDS to be newuser, I spent hours of my day pulling hair figuring that out.

But you never changed the default password from secret. Now anybody can get in there.

only if pi zero w without extra dongle works, or it is quite useless. The regular pi is power hungry, non-portable, and loading the full rasbian is a waste of resources.

The only issue I see on that is, how to provide the power for the Raspberry Pi on my travel. :)

I do understand why you would do that as a geek and I did so years ago but there is no reason why you would use a raspeberry pi to build a travel router over picking up something off the shelf that just works, gets regular software updates, includes 3 lan ports, a proper case, antennas and runs OpenWRT such as for example the GL.iNET SFT1200 which can be picked up on Amazon for $40...

OpenWrt is far less complicated than this.

Yeah I wouldnt blindly recommend updating the system the way you guys do. Lots of times it breaks something.

It‘s a pure waste of time and energy. The raspberry isn’t even worth the effort to use it as router. The GL.inet brings the the best hardware and software for a travel router. I really love the Beryl AX😊

A tplink n902 router is cheaper and easier 👍🇩🇰