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Barefoot Mike's avatar

I picked up a couple different cheap duplex hotspots. One of them pretty much worked out of the box aside from setting up to the wifi. I was able to update the pi-star software by using the built in update function.

The other one, which looks like the one you have, was a bit more challenging as I had to select a modem type as well as the screen type and port. I spent a few hours on that one, bit in the end it works fine.

So I now have two duplex hotspots for about $225 total. One tiny one with white OLED screen and a loud-ish fan, and the other, like yours, fanless and silent with a three inch full color LCD screen.

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John's avatar

My experience was nearly identical with a pi zero w dual hat unit that I formatted the SD card trying to get the wifi file installed upon (my mistake). I've got it sending on both time slots but doesn't appear to be receiving. Haven't tried simplex but saw others did likewise.

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