Some wifi issues using the waveshare esp32 s3 4.3B

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Hi! I 'm very pleased with my brand new installed display. It makes the use of the tonex green limmited edition that I bougt at Thoman's so much more versatile and fit for changes 'on the fly' in a live setting! Lots of thanks for all the work that was put in with as a result such a broad spectrum of possible devices and options. Amazing! While the touchscreen does everything I 'm expecting it to do, I 'm having problems with the wifi AP connection and also getting the tonex.local page to show up.
I used three different devices to test. It's an W11 laptop, an android (non-rooted) Xiaomi Mi 9T (with standard version of android 11) and a non-rooted samsung s5e (also on android 11).

With the webconfiguration of the access point I'm on the standard settings that come with the firmware. I installed the latest version

Here is what I'm experiencing:

• I can see the tonex config AP on all three devices and I'm able to login on it. But when I try to log in with a second device or log off on a connected device the wifi AP on the esp32 immediatly closes itself down.
• Connecting regularly fails, as a result of witch I have to restart the display every time
• On the W11 laptop, I can access the tonex.local page using chrome for instance. I 'm able to change every parameter that is provided. On the android devices I can't get to this page. Not in Chrome, nor in Firefox. Not in standard mode nor in 'private' mode or when having cleared the cache

Cheers!
Paul

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Hi Paul,
The standard WiFi mode "access point timed" is designed to be availble for a short time after boot, and then shuts down (in case anyone has concerns that WiFi could in some way affect a live performance.)
If you don't connect right after boot, it will shutdown.
If you connect then disconnect, it will also shutfdown.

In your case, you would need to be using "access point" mode (not the default timed one.)
Access point mode is available always and never shuts down.

As far as the inability to connect to tonex.local, this requires the device and also the router to support "mDNS" (Apple calls it "Bonjour")
You may have some configuration somewhere on phone or router that has disabled mDNS.
As a work around, in access point mode you can type in the IP address of the controller directly and bypass mDNS.
Just enter "192.168.4.1" into the browser and it should connect right away.
Hope that helps.