[ale] Raspberry pi standalone hotspot/apache server - how insane?

[Pete Hardie]

I've done similar things in the past (the hotspot part) to avoid crappy
hotel wifi device limits.

However, more recent Linuxen have changed so that I was not able to get the
hotspot up last year


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:36 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> So, if one was headed out on an extended cruise, and one wanted to do a
> couple of things:
>
> 1) have a standalone hotspot to allow an android phone and a Roku stick
> to communicate so the phone could cast some learning videos to the TV.
> (tai-chi/qigong - long cruise)
>
> 2) have a that hotspot also provide a rudimentary webserver, so that
> static html pages could be served up to some number of people,
> completely independent of the ship's Wifi.
>
> It looks like a raspberry pi 3 could readily do that.
>
> How much work to set that up?  Where might one find the best deal in
> town on one?
>
> Having never worked with one,  I'm guessing that one can find a base
> linux, and the hdmi port will drive a display, and one can stick a USB
> keyboard and mouse on it, and then it's pretty much a small linux box?
>
> regards,
>
>
> Neal
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