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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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TCP connection not working properly when using iPhone as hotspot

I'm developing an application for iOS which is connecting through TCP sockets to a server aplication run on Android. In order to find the IP of the 2nd device I use a UDP request and receive the IP of the server. It's working well all the time when…
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WiFi adhoc network creation in raspberry pi

I am trying to create wifi Ad-hoc network/ Hotspot in pi but no success. I tried from following…
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C++ Multicasting while connected through Mobile Hotspot device

I'm new to network programming in C++ and I'm writing a very simple app that is suppose to do a multicast. From my research I see one of the first things I need to do is find out if my router supports multicast forwarding and multicast routing…
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wifi tethering on android

I have created an app for tethering wifi on android devices and here`s my code WiFiAo.java package com.gado.wifihotspot; import android.app.Activity; import android.app.ProgressDialog; import android.content.Context; import…
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Chrome cast using Wi-Fi HotSpot of Android Smartphone

Can chrome cast be used using Wi-Fi Hotspot of my Android Smartphone ? Model Number: Galaxy Nexus (Nexus 3) Android Version: 4.1.1 I do not want to introduce third external device (i.e. External WiFi router) to stream YouTube videos from…
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turn on Hotspot under settings displaces UI of screen Xcode iPhone

When i turn on Personnel Hotspot on under My iPhone settings the UI of My iPhone App gets displaced 20 pixels below.How can i deal with this problem. Is there a way i can detect whether Hotspot is turned on or off.? Thanks vikas
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How I get client device list which is connected with mobile hotspot

I want to get client device MAC address which is connected with mobile hotspot.I want to get this list in host device which containt hotspot. I already get list in android 9 or lower version but i don't know hot get list android 10 or above…
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Identify Hardware MAC addresses of smartphone based hotspots

we are developing a tracker device which uses Wifi Geolocation. So we have an ESP32 with modified firmware which scans the surrounding Access Points, send them to a server where we request to the google geolocation api for a position by passing the…
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Not able to ping device which started the LocalOnlyHotSpot when mobile data is on

I am using wifiManager.startLocalOnlyHotspot to start a hotspot with no internet access so that the connecting device can send files to this device using sockets. Everything is working as expected but I am not able to ping the connected wifi hotspot…
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How does a captive portal work under the hood, and how can I write one in Java to use on a Windows Hotspot?

I want to create a captive portal, first for a Windows hotspot, then for mobile-hotspots and all wifi-networks in general. So I want to understand how captive portals work under the hood, then how can I develop one in Java. I know Java socket…
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Hotspot turn off automatically after few seconds of turn on in Android 8.0 (Oreo)

I'm trying to turn on hotspot programmatically on Oreo and onward Devices but unfortunately, the hotspot is turned off within few seconds. What can be the reason? Here is How I'm trying to turn on. public static boolean configApState(Context…
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create hotspot programmatically on iOS using swift

I'm using swift 4.2. I want to create personal hotspot on my iOS device(iPhone) but not finding any solution to this. I Read on another blog that Apps are not allowed to access settings like bluetooth, wifi and personal hotspot is it true??
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Modify firewall rule to allow incoming connection for a specific port in an electron app

I am trying to create a local server accessible via local network in my electron app. I want to allow incoming access to a specific port. import server from "./server"; import os from "os"; //TODO determine the local network ip i.e LAN IP let…
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Android wifi hotspot connected device limit

Good day guys, Im working on file sharing android application, I just want to know if there's a way on how can i change the limit of connected devices on my android hotspot. for example i want my hotspot allow 50 devices to connect, or unlimited…
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Connect to bluetooth Personal Area Network

I'm wondering if it's possible to connect to bluetooth PAN within the app? Scenario: There will be two devices, 1st has internet connection and bluetooth tethering is enabled then 2nd has no internet connection and expected to connect to 1st device…
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