Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Enable wifi in OSMC on Raspberry Pi.

Recently, I got myself in a situation where I had to use Wifi module with my OSMC setup.
As you might be knowing that in the current version, enabling wifi on OSMC in GUI mode is not supported and it can only be done using a few super commands on your OSMC terminal.

Let me take you through those super commands:
connmanctl
then
technologies

If wifi is off use:
enable wifi

then
scan wifi

then
agent on
then
services
This will list found networks, then use connect with the long string to the right of the network you're trying to connect to - for example

connect wifi_c83a35ca4314_535454657374_managed_psk

Tip: you can use tab completion so you don't have to type every character.
Once connected the connection will be remembered and automatically used in the future.
Network settings will soon be added in the OSMC settings addon so this manual method (or entering the details during install) won't be needed for the final version of OSMC.

Hope this post will help you, if you got stuck! 

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