I have Volumio setup on a very old laptop to play music from youtube at work. Right now I have it hotspot to my phone (works, but is draining data fast), but I’d like to connect it to our WiFi here. The issue is that our WiFi requires a browser confirmation once it’s connected to (terms and condition kind of thing, similar to xfinity hotspots, or other public WiFi).
Is there any way to open this browser page within Volumio to confirm the prompt and get it online? Is there a browser plugin that supports very basic web-sites? Or some other work-around to get it online?
Yeah, I was hoping there was a way to load a browser, especially since the help pages seem to load via some type of browser in there. Unfortunately, it doesn’t redirect to the login page when connected to the WiFi, it just say unavailable (usually the WiFi will redirect the first page you go to and bring you to the login page).
I can understand not wanting to maintain a browser on Volumio natively (to support everything in HTML and beyond is actually extremely complicated - making and maintaining a browser is difficult), but I thought there might be a way to use the basic browser that seems to be built-in. Or maybe there’s a way to get a terminal and do it via that?
Volumio starts in a kiosk mode, without address bar etc.
Since your not using a web based device, the return URL from your network will not initiate a kiosk popup.
Maybe you can hijack a hotspot on your PC and have Volumio connect to it.
Yeah, I have the laptop booting directly into Volumio from the drive, Volumio is the only thing on the computer. I can host a hotspot from my laptop and get it online, but that doesn’t allow it to connect to the same WiFi on its own after (and everyone gets upset when I leave for a meeting and it disconnects because I “take the internet with me” ). This is probably just too niche a scenario, I’ll just have to find some other way of getting internet to the device. It doesn’t seem possible to connect to a web page within Volumio itself (tried a fair bit of things at this point), so going to have to go back to the drawing board.
). This is probably just too niche a scenario, I’ll just have to find some other way of getting internet to the device. It doesn’t seem possible to connect to a web page within Volumio itself (tried a fair bit of things at this point), so going to have to go back to the drawing board.