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Ok phew. I've retested a few more times and it seems to connect consistently now to my phone's hotspot. Now to not change anything. The 2 IP addresses is what's shown in the network identification app, Fing. It shows the Astroberry has 2 IP addresses, usually 1 number apart. If i can't connect to the first one, can usually connect to the second one. Not sure why it has two as I know this is unusual. I still would like to re-add the default connection (the -999 one) back in case I need it one day. Any chance someone could post a screen shot of those settings? At any rate, appreciate the help thus far. Cheers!

Yes its a stock Pi without adapter. I have deleted all the wifi connections within Astroberry though (including the one with -999 priority also), and only left the one i created to connect to my Phone's hotspot. I dont think it liked that. Does there need to be 'Astroberry Hotspot' (with the -999 priority) or 'Astroberry' wifi connections configured for it to work even at a base level. How can I add the Astroberry VAP again, because I'm pretty sure I deleted it. I also checked for the lines in etc/network/interfaces and they weren't there. I then checked etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and it didn't exist, only the .bak version of that file existed.

I'm getting network issues and am not very Linux syntax savvy. I'll connect it to my phone's hotspot, and also connect a tablet to that same hotspot, run Fing on the tablet (to see devices connected to that network) and can see that Astroberry almost always has 2 IP addresses. Anyway, I normally can VNC to one of them so this isn't a problem but last night in the field I could not VNC to at all. I rebooted all devices several times in different orders, I also deleted Astroberry's own Wi-Fi connection configured in the network manager leaving only my phone hotspot Wi-Fi connection configured with a priority of 1 or 2 and VNC just would not connect. I would really like to use astroberry and have spent many days and nights trying to work with , understand and learn a bit about linux, but after another night lost I am at that point right now where I feel like we are not destined to get along. It's there anything I should try from here?

Hi there, Just wanted to say that i did the above and it definitely makes the red light brighter, so thankyou! Yet to try it in the field, but Im looking forward to it now. So not knowing much about electronics, by doing the above have we also bypassed that black box (resistor? capacitor?) marked B200/8200? And so what in layman's terms have we done? Thanks again.