Has anyone been successful at getting the onboard wifi (wlan0) working with the SamperBox image?
How?
Any added lag?
How do we measure lag?

Current working awesome: RPi3+2uSD+UMX490+UCA222+KRKrocket5+SonySub+5VwallPS
Goal: RPi0w based USB to XLR (MIDI-PA dongle)

I've actually been working on this over the last few days! It's given me a lot of grief that's for sure

Hopefully I don't miss any steps here, but here goes... in the console input:

mount -o remount,rw / # remount as read-write
apt-get -y install wpasupplicant dhcpcd firmware-brcm80211 # install network and firmware packages
mkdir /etc/wpa_supplicant/
touch /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf # for some reason doesn't exist as it should do
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf # start wpa_supplicant service
dhcpcd wlan0 # assign IP address

Edit your wpa_supplicant.conf to include your network network (nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf):

ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network{
ssid="YOUR NETWORK NAME"
psk="YOUR NETWORK PASSWORD"
}

CTRL-X and Y to save

Now let's get samplerbox.py to assign an IP address on startup (probably a better way to do this!). Open: nano /root/SamplerBox/samplerbox.py and under all the initial import statements add:

import
os.system('dhcpcd wlan0')

CTRL-X and Y to save

That should do it. If anyone has a better way of getting on-board wifi up and running, please share! Seems strange that we have to do this since the latest .img uses the latest Raspbian (Jessie) sources.

AlexM,
YOUR AWESOME. I was stuck at "install network and firmware packages" Thanks...

There is a sintax error in your post and I had to issue a reboot 2x to get things going but BIG TY!

RE-POSTING with what worked for me

mount -o remount,rw /
apt-get -y install wpasupplicant dhcpcd firmware-brcm80211

NOTE: The wpa_supplicant folder was already there for me

reboot
mount -o remount,rw /
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iwlist wlan0 scan

Edit your wpa_supplicant.conf to include your network network (nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf):

ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1

network={
ssid="YOUR NETWORK NAME"
psk="YOUR NETWORK PASSWORD"
}

CTRL-X and Y to save

reboot
mount -o remount,rw /
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd wlan0

WORKS

I'm having to start it up manually now, but there has got to be way to clean it up

Great! Good to know that worked. I'm still not sure why the wifi firmware package (firmware-brcm80211) isn't installed by default by Raspbian Jessie. If anyone can enlighten us, please share!

A couple of improvements:

• apt-get install the package dhcpcd5 instead of dhcpcd
• systemctl enable wpa_supplicant to start the wpa_supplicant service
• no need to call wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf or dhcpcd wlan0 (can ignore the lines i suggest adding in the samplerbox.py)

The next SamplerBox release will have this sorted ;)

Hi,

I have followed your instructions and it succeed at last.
Anyway, Wifi does not start automatically.
Is there a way to automatically start Wifi ?

you wrote "The next SamplerBox release will have this sorted ;)"
--> when the new version will be released ?

Thank you.

Do you think guys it's possible to enable SSH this way? it would be great to use SSH to put samples instead of physically copying them

thank you