Questions tagged [personal-hotspot]

A personal hotspot is a mobile device used as an ad-hoc wireless network router. Use this tag if your question relates to issues with programs you develop which arise when your device is being used a personal hotspot.

A personal hotspot is a mobile device used as an ad-hoc wireless network router.

When in places with no wireless Internet access, a mobile device with its own Internet connection can serve this function by transferring traffic over the local wireless network which it generates onto the mobile network where it is connected.

This is a feature of many modern mobile phone operating systems such as and .

Use this tag if your question relates to issues with programs you develop which arise when your device is being used a personal hotspot. StackOverflow is not the place to ask why your device's personal hotspot functionality is somehow handicapped.

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Android Wifi-Hotspot Port Forwarding

How can I make a port forwarding from a android device whose Hotspot is ON to another device who is connected to that hotspot. I want to connect to my system server which is connected to a android Hotspot from another device which is in another…
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Creating a captive portal for iPhone personal hotspot

So I've read that the two things that determine a captive hotspot for Mac OS devices are of they can reach an Apple DNS served as well as Apple.com with a correct user agent. However my goal is to create a captive portal that works on my iPhone (so…
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Create a LAN Access Point on Android device (no Internet needed)

I need to implement the following functionality: The application should programmatically make the Android device a LAN server (i.e. other devices should be able to connect to the network created by the application wirelessly, like connection to the…
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Load HTML page automatically when user connects to router

I'm working on a wifi hotspot project that allows the users to download an e-books. The main idea is: The user connects to the wifi router. The router loads an HTML page automatically on the user device. The user downloads the e-books from the…
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SSH to RaspberryPi which is connected via iPhone Hotspot

I have a RaspberryPi which is configured to automatically connect to my iPhone's wifi hotspot. I need to take the RaspberryPi to various locations for testing, and I often need to leave it at a location for extended periods of time (without my…
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how to transfer files via iPhone personal hotspot between devices?

Is it possible to transfer files via iPhone hotspot i.e, iphone connected to a cellular network creates a wi-fi hotspot and one of the device is connected to that wi-fi and data transfer between these two devices over hotspot? The iPhone has an app…
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How to Stream Media(Audio/Video) Across Multiple Android device over Wifi or Wifi Hotspot?

I am currently working on a project when you play song. it's play in your another device which is automatically play in another android device connected through WiFi or WiFi-mobile hotspot. How to stream audio android device to vlc player. I got…
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Communicate from Android device to iPhone using hotspot and local http server?

Wondering if it is possible to run an http server on my iPhone (CocoaHTTTPServer) and then connect to the iPhone hotspot from an Android device. Find the IP address of the hotspot (somehow) and then communicate directly to the iPhone http server…
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Unable to hit firebase end point on a particular ISP through a hotspot - Realtime database

I am unable to use firebase's realtime database. I have been using it in prod for the past 4-5 months and have done no code change. On deeper analysis This issue is only with a particular ISP (Jio in India) and works fine with other ISPs. Am unable…
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How to find if the device is configured as a portable hotspot

I can't find in the doc how to retrieve if device is configured as a portable hotspot. I've read How to detect if a network is (configured as) a mobile hotspot on Android? but I don't know if the feature has been implemented?
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Raspberry Pi 3 can't connect to iOS' Personal Hotspot

I'm currently working on an iOS app which needs to pair to a custom external device (smart camera relying on a Raspberry Pi 3) to work correctly. The pairing mechanism is currently based on WebSockets, so the app and the camera needs to be on the…
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Connect to hotspot programmatically in android

Hi I know this question asked many time but non of theme help me to dispel my problem. i want to create hotspot in a device and connect to it from other device and sending data over wifi. Problem is first time i can connect to my hotspot and…
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Exchanging data over a WiFi Hotspot between an iOS device and Android device

The problem is: Having an Android device with turns on Personal Hotspot(WiFi/ad-hoc network). Having an iOS device which connects to the Android's WiFi network. Is there a possibility to exchange data between the same app build by a developer on…
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Android ServerSocket accept as wifi hotspot

I have an android device that is running as an access point (a.k.a. wifi hotspot) and It is running this code: serverSocket = new ServerSocket(serverPort); serverSocket.setReuseAddress(true); while (RUNNING) { try { …
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Freeradius and Client Configuration?

I am using hostapd to create a hotspot in my laptop. I am using freeradius as my backend authentication server. I configured clients in freeradius as client 11.0.0.1 { secret=Somethingelse ipaddr=11.0.0.1 require_message_authenticator =…
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