Cant get WIFI to work

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Im running HAOS on a Zotac ZBox nano (x64) with the latest version of HAOS and all updates installed. Because i have a guest network for all my devices in the house i need to connect to my network using wifi (unfortunatally i can only connect to my primary network using a cable…)

Now i tried several ways to connect but for some reason i cant get my wifi enabled.

Using the interface and the “Search Networks” i get an error message “Scanning not allowed while unavailable”.

Next i tried the terminal getting info about the network adapters:

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Here you’ll see that the wlp3s0f0 adapter is not enabled and reading several blogs i did try to set it manually using the network update command:

ha network update wlan0 --ipv4-method auto --wifi-auth wpa-psk --wifi-mode infrastructure --wifi-ssid “MY-SSID” --wifi-psk MY_PASS

however this results in “Error: Can’t create config and activate wlp3s0f0: Connection ‘Supervisor wlp3s0f0’ is not available on device wlp3s0f0 because device is unavailable”.

Googling doesnt help me further than these same solutions

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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Why are you doing that?

A guest network will very likely prohibit communication between devices. That includes your home assistant server if you put it on that network.

If you must segregate the network use a VLAN.

There is nothing unfortunate about that. It is very poor practice to connect a server via wifi.

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yes i know and i have a few reasons for that,

First i dont want my devices connected to the same network as my laptop or phone due to security reasons, as all devices are connected nowadays, the change of leakage or network sniffing might be bigger so it feels more secure when those are splitted

Second: my issues are that i cant get a 5GHz network to work with the devices so i can only use a 2.4 GHz which has a longer range but is slower.

So regardless if it is a bad practise and i probably end up with 1 network and everything connected to that single network :slight_smile: however i want to experiment with this setup to see if i can get it to work and how it works for me.

So this option should be available but i can get it to work.

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Don’t use a guest network.