I have a peice of software that I need to run inside a container, it’s similar to the wi-fi configuration tool that’s avaialble however for this project I need to use this other software. The software uses connman to configure wi-fi and connect it to a network, however I haven’t had success with it…

Ahh unfortunately that’s what I suspected that it’d be conflicting. Currently when I do get Connman to run in the container, it causes NM on the host to have issues connecting with the VPN I believe. At the moment for development I have the units connected via ethernet for development which is why…

why do you want to use Connman? is this being used on the helium gateway-config?

Yeah it’s what is used by that software to configure network interfaces.

do you think you can change to wifi-connect? https://github.com/balena-io/wifi-connect

Unfortunately I don’t think so as the idea is that the user can configure it from the helium mobile application. Screenshots from running on native Pi OS. [Screenshot_20201226-153439] [Screenshot_20201226-153712] I suspect as maybe a worst case senario it might be possible to get the user to c…

I don’t think I’ve tried that yet so will give it a shot shortly. Thanks for the help.

Ok so, I didn’t have a wi-fi configuration file on the hostos at all as I didn’t write the ethernet + wifi image as it requires details (something that wouldn’t be possible when shipping the product to customers). I have connmand start in the container when it launches, this allows the gateway-con…

Could you please share more details about the error that you get please?

Using Connman from inside a container?

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mpous December 30, 2020, 12:51pm 36

Yes! it’s not the best situation! if we try to disconnect the balena Network Manager. Did you try this? Turn off Bluetooth and WiFi on a running device

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