Tag: linux

Sharing Wi-Fi via the Ethernet port on Ubuntu

Your computer (wComputer) is connected to a Wi-Fi network and you want to connect another computer into Wi-Fi network to share the internet connection but this computer (lComputer) doesn’t have a Wi-Fi adapter.

What it has is an Ethernet port and therefore, the wComputer with the Wi-Fi connection can share that network over its Ethernet port to the lComputer.

I am using Ubuntu on the wComputer and windows on the lComputer.

  • Type nm-connection-editor in your terminal.
  • Add a shared network connection by pressing the Add button.
  • Choose Ethernet from the list and press Create.
create a new ethernet connection
  • Click IPv4 Settings in the left.
  • Choose Shared to other computers by clicking the Method drop-down menu.
  • Enter a new name like wifishare as the Connection name at the top
rename it to wifishare (optional) and select share to other computers in IPv4

now, I connected the lComputer with the wComputer using a cable and rebooted the wComputer, i think restarting the networking service should also do the magic.

lComputer will get a IPv4 address from the wComputer 10.42.0.24, which is probably the default on Ubuntu.

[1] https://www.cesariogarcia.com/?p=611

Sending and Receiving message between onboard Raspberry Pi BLE and an Ardui​no with HM 11

Goal:

send messages between the HM 11 BLE modules and my Raspberry PI 3 with its onboard BLE.

How:

Bluez comes installed with the raspbian distro.

Wiring is basic UART for connecting the HM 11 to the Arduino. In my case, I am using a Teensy 3.6 programmed using the Arduino IDE.

Use this serial proxy sketch for getting started. if you have Arduino IDE, open this file. Teensy serial ports are on 0 and 1. I kept it software serial so its easy to adapt for any other board by just changing the pins used for the UART.

Thats all you need to setup on the Arduino side. Everything should work now.

May be try a few AT commands. AT should give you OK if the module is used for the first time. if not OK+LOST which means that the module was connected previously which was lost. I would, either way, try the three AT commands just to be on the safer side. AT+RENEW, AT+RESET, AT.

If you make a PR request for adding a new line after every response from the HM 11 module, it would be great

Next step is to set up the raspberry pi, everything should be available directly up setting up an RPi with a new SD card. Be sure that you are using Raspberry Pi 3 and newer versions which have onboard BLE.

With Commandline:

With Python:

you should know the HM 11 Mac address. you should know it if you did it through command line. if not, you can do AT+ADDR? and add “:” after every two characters.

Install system dependencies, Go into the directory, Install the python dependencies. Before starting the python program, change the address that you want to connect. After you did that, start the program, it should send Hello world once to the device and wait for any messages. If you enter in the serial monitor, it will be printed out by the python program. 

# sudo apt-get install build-essential python-pip3 git
# git clone https://github.com/akrv/BLEserialbridge
# cd BLEserialbridge
# pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# python3 serial_bridge.py
below is the AT Commands I sent since setting up the module.