Hey all,
I have been trying to trouble shoot ways to get around not being able to connect to my school’s public wifi so I can have my Mini in my classroom. It was suggested that I use my phone’s hot spot so I thought I would give that a try. I brought in my Ipdad and downloaded the app but when I went to connect the mini to my phone’s hotspot, the hotspot doesn’t show up on the list of available Wifi networks.
Any thoughts ?
Apologies for the slow reply. You’re generating the hotspot with your phone and using a separate iPad to connect to the mini right? If so, can you tell me more about the type of phone you’re using to generate the hotspot?
It is an IPhone 12 using the xfinity mobile network.
Was there ever an update here?
I am also trying to work around work WiFi limitations.
I have an iPhone 16 on ATT with a hotspot that my work laptop can see.
I am connecting my iPad to this network, and going through steps. When it asks for network, Oasis does not see my iPhone network, and entering the name manually with password does not find it.
I tried the reverse, using the iPad as the hotspot and the app on the phone, and got same results.
No, I did not get any response from this post. I had an earlier post where I described the problem I was having connecting to my schools wifi and they said there was a splash guard preventing the mini from connecting. I tried using my phones hotspot as a work around but had the same issues you are having. I bought it with the main purpose of having it in my classroom but it spent almost the entire time after i got it in its box. Hopefully it will have an update to help fix these issues before the next school year.
I also was planning on using my phone as a hotspot and cannot get it to work. I brought my phone and iPad. All other devices (including iPad) can see and connect to my phones mobile hotspot but the oasis app does not see it as an option to connect to. Would a software update help this? I suppose I would have to take it home so I could try to do the update manually. Using an iPhone 15 pro max for hotspot with ios 17.5.1
Update: after bringing it home to do the update it can sometimes see my iPhone hotspot. This means I can’t connect to my work WiFi anymore on my phone, which means I have very poor service. Also if I leave the room with my phone when I get back it is disconnected and I have to start all over from scratch trying to pair it with my hotspot on my phone by using my iPad which takes a long time and requires several tries. I would have loved an option to connect via Bluetooth or even plug a flash drive into the device with a list of designs I wanted it to play.
I got it to work using the hotspot on my iphone. I just had to turn ON “maximize compatibility”