Hey guys I am having a wifi issue where the wifi on my raspberry pi 3 would completely drop out after a while of use after the newest updates, I am using the internal built in wifi which works perfectly fine until I did this update and even edited /etc/rc.local and added the line sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off but noticed that sudo iwconfig says command not found tho the wifi is working
dpkg -l | grep wireless
ii wireless-firmware-osmc Wireless firmware (proprietary) for OSMC
iwconfig is not installed by default.
sudo apt install wireless-tools
You may also want to install wavemon
sudo apt install wavemoneven tho it seems to be doing this after the update and I have installed those 2 applications and now rebooted it seems to so far seems to do it when i play music from the Google Play music addon but again only been happening after the update, I will see if the config edit and installing those application will do the trick after more testing.
EDIT: nope doesn’t help and even streaming shows or movies it does the same…
iwconfig and wavemon will not fix your problem, but may help you find it. If the dropouts only occur when using the Google Play addon, then I’d suspect that.
"EDIT: nope doesn’t help and even streaming shows or movies it does the same…’
Run wavemon while you are having the problem. It may help point you to where the problem is.
Are the dropouts happening often? Every minute or so?
You may try adding this line to /etc/connman.conf (at the end of the file)
BackgroundScanning=false
I don’t know if that will help on a Pi3, but it’s worth trying.
Seems to only be common and happen not long after I stream stuff music or videos since this update happened, I could try it but I am not sure if it will help or not
Seems to be fixed when I reinstalled with the newest version from OSMC