323a Sesión de Tesos en Wi-Fi: Installing Dual Orb Sensors on WLANPi
In this session we learn how to install dual Orbs in a WLANPi. One reports on the Ethernet connection and the second reports on the Wi-Fi connection. Simultaneously.
Conclusion: This would not have been possible without the valuable input and expertise from Mr. Keith Parsons, Josh and Daniel from Orb, Adrián from Intuitibits, Ben and his son Dylan from nOversight and many others in the community. I put together a .deb file with all the necessary modifications. Well, let me clarify what I mean when I say, “I put together a .deb file”, I interacted with AI for hours and hours, burned countless images, found errors, fed them back to the AI, and repeated the process until I finally found the file containing everything necessary to accomplish dual orbs on the wlanpi.
Here are the instructions to install dual Orb on a WLANPi.
File needed: https://tinyurl.com/33azpchr
I used it on R4 and Pro and it works seamlessly on both. The WLANPi R4 has two Panda Wireless Model AXE3000 with MediaTek mt7921u chipset [Wi-Fi 6E NICs]. Download this file to your downloads, open the terminal, and navigate there, then:
# 1. Copy the file to the WLANPi [change IP to your WLANPi’s]
scp wlanpi-dual-orb_1.0.2_all.deb wlanpi@192.168.128.112:~
# 2. SSH to the Pi and Install — this prompts for the SSID and password and sets everything up
sudo apt install ./wlanpi-dual-orb_1.0.2_all.deb
# 3. Reboot — orb-install.service runs on boot, installs Orb, starts both sensors
sudo reboot
That is it! I noticed issues with cloned images on the network. The newly created images would hold the orbIDs and names from the original image. If you clone the image and multiple WLANPi’s use the same image, run sudo orb-reset-identity to delete old orbIDs and hostnames. This creates new orbIDs and names using the wlanpi hostname. The Orb dashboard can now detect a new Orb.
# 4. Clear old orbIDs and hostnames
sudo orb-reset-identity
# 5. Reconfigure SSID, password, encryption
sudo orb-wifi-configure
Here are some useful commands I compiled during the process:
sudo systemctl status orb.service # Status of Ethernet Orb
sudo systemctl status orb-wifi-sensor.service # Status of Wi-Fi Orb
sudo journalctl -fu orb # Live Ethernet Orb logs
sudo journalctl -fu orb-wifi-sensor # Live Wi-Fi Orb logs
sudo orb-wifi-configure # Change Wi-Fi credentials
sudo systemctl daemon-reload # Reloads systemd configurations
sudo systemctl restart orb.service # Restarts the Ethernet Orb service
sudo systemctl restart orb-wifi-sensor.service # Restarts the Wi-Fi Orb service
sudo orb-reset-identity # Deletes old orbIDs on cloned images [new OrbID]
sudo orb-reset-identity –dry-run # shows what would be deleted, no changes made
