Use YOUR Raspberry PI as a TRAVEL ROUTER for SECURE web browsing WHEREVER you are!!

[@perkulant4629]

Used RaspAP on my pi 4 in April this year while in fuerteventura. Was awesome.

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Great!!!! I was really happy with it too!!!

[@iandron7119]

Thanks Jeff. Very clear and concise.

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Thanks so much!!! I hope it works really well for you!!

[@Randombourg]

Nice!

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Thanks for the support!!

[@Gaominte]

Looking forward to trying this! 😎

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Good luck!!! Share how you get on!!

[@An.Individual]

Do you have a video about installing a VPN server at home, maybe on a Pi?

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Yes I do!!! Take a look at this one!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrFo4eCatSpoJIsi=0rAPM-Vmg9ThI5dP Hope it goes well! Share how you get on!!

[@followthetrawler]

I do this using Wireguard to my home router but using a GL.iNet Beryl - Using a spare Pi wasn't something I had considered, but it might be worth a go. Jeff there is a bit missing in this config (at least I didnt see you do it). How do you connect to the upstream hotel WiFi network - assuming we are in a hotel. Also, how does RaspAP handle hotel hotspot logins to get that connection up and running so you can start the VPN?

[@markbinner2375]

I watched the video today and I have the same question.

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

OMG you're right!!! I completely forgot about the upstream network. Fortunately it's super simple. Whether you're connecting with a wired network or a WiFi network, just use the normal Raspberry PI mechanisms for connecting. Since I used the lite version of the OS here, wired is the easiest as it's just plug in the cable and you're good (assuming it's DHCP). For everything else, use nmtui. It's a text based version of NetworkManager

[@hammockdweller]

@@jeffs_piinthesky I guess that means you have to use VNC to connect to the Pi, open a browser there, so you can setup a connection through the captive portal of a hotel? Or can RaspAP do this?

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

I'd suggest just using SSH to connect to the pi as opposed to VNC. Since it's the lite version of os, there's no desktop gui so VNC wouldn't work.

[@hanko498]

Great video. Do you know if you can install raspap and home assistant on the same pi?

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Full disclosure, I've never installed Home Assistant on a PI so can't say for sure. However, since there's no particular magic to it (unless you hook in tons and tons of extra processing like complex health checks or something) then I don't see why you couldn't do that. Just be careful with network rules so you don't inadvertently block access to HA with RaspAP 😃

[@adriansheppard3996]

Any idea how to get SMB working, so that Clients connected to the Wifi can access the share. I would like to use the router as a media source, sharing videos and music.

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

You should be able to install samba on the pi and use that to share out your files. As people connect to the router, they can then access the share on the router IP address

[@adriansheppard3996]

@@jeffs_piinthesky Thanks Jeff, I did actually install samba and got it all working. This was when I was connected via ethernet, everything worked fine. Problem I now have is that once I disconnect ethernet and try to connect to a local Wifi I no longer have internet access. I've tried various things, but cannot get this to work. Any ideas?

[@Grrr2048]

hmm, nice one, thinking about this but with tailscale

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

I will confess to having never heard of Tailscale...After a bit of research, sounds like it's built on Wireguard so maybe it'd integrate quite nicely with raspap??? If you give it a go, please share how you get on!!!

[@Grrr2048]

@@jeffs_piinthesky Hi Jeff, thanks for the reply, unfortunately I don't have a spare Pi at the moment however I think it it would be fairly simple to integrate

[@1st_Lifeenjoyer]

Hello. I have a question. If you have a virtual machine with a network bridge (that only works via eth0.. How do you connect it to your travel router? Cheers

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

I'm assuming you're talking about running the travel router inside a VM? You should be able to pass a USB device into the VM. Most hypervisors support that kind of thing. By doing that, you could pass a USB WiFi dongle into it.

[@1st_Lifeenjoyer]

@@jeffs_piinthesky Thanks for your reply. No, I meant by following your other video, "Attach VIRTUAL MACHINES on your RASPBERRY PI to your HOME NETWORK for EASY ACCESS!". There you explained if you try to connect your network bridge to the WiFi, it wont work. So for it to work I thought I'd connect it to a travel router via an ethernet cable? Is it as simple as just plugging it in? Will that work? It might be an obvious thing, but I would like to know before I get working on a travel router. The thing is that I would like to use my VM servers on the field where there is no internet, so that people could connect to them via Wifi (or eth too preferably). Thank you again for high quality and easy to understand tutorials. Awesome work! But I see what you mean. That is an elegant solution indeed. In my case it might even rule out the need for a travel router entirely. I got some ideas to test. Thank you! (sorry if I'm rambling.. I have worked 4 11h night shifts in a row and feel a bit dumb.. 😅

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Oh I see what you mean, apols. So the thing with the travel router is it's implemented on a bare metal pi as opposed to a vm running on it. So yes, if you plug your network cable into the port then raspap sees that straight away as eth0. With the wifi, it's the same deal, raspap can see both the built in wifi and any external wifi adapter. If you want to run raspap in a vm, then if you bridge your ethernet interface and use that for the Internet visibility, that'll work fine. You could then use h/w passthrough to send a usb wifi adapter into the vm. Hope that makes sense!!! If either this makes no sense or I'm still not understanding your use case, please shout!!

[@vitalis]

Teaching people to use a raspberry pi but then end up using nordVPN? A honeypot VPN? Why not an open sourced alternative?

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

It supports OpenVPN too as stated in the video where I used that to connect back to my home network

[@SB-qm5wg]

... while I was camping lol

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

Ok, ok, camping could be a bit tricky...but there's always Starlink right??? 🤣

[@SB-qm5wg]

@@jeffs_piinthesky I worked with a group where there was a joke that any PTO they'd be "camping" so they didn't have cell signal so no one could reach out to them when something broke (IT).

[@NotWoke-e8i]

Travelling is cancelled. Europe is in War.

[@jeffs_piinthesky]

I'm flying out Saturday 🤣