WiFi Hotspot S905X4 Vontar X4

Hi everyone,

I bought a Vontar X4 with 4 GB RAM / 64 GB storage / 1 Gbit Ethernet. I use the current stable version of Omega (CoreELEC-Amlogic-ne.aarch64-21.0-Omega-Generic.img) with the generic device tree (sc2_s905x4_4g_1gbit). I am super happy how CoreELEC works on the device, many thanks to the developers.

The only problem I am running into is the WiFi setup. I have the box connected via Ethernet and want to use it as a WiFi hotspot and share the Ethernet with some devices connected to the box via WiFi. So I went to the CoreELEC settings and turned " Enable ‘tethered’ Wireless Access Point " on and it worked at the beginning, but after a reboot or some time it does not work anymore. When I go back to the setting the " SSID" and " Passphrase" contain not the original settings anymore but some other strings for example some IP addresses or some parts of strings. I guess there is somewhere an error when reading out the information. When I use the android from the manufacturer I can use the device as an hotspot, so the hardware should be capable.

I tried to set a hotspot up with connmanctl but was also not successful. When I use the “connmanctl tether wifi on” command most of the time I get the response “Error enabling wifi tethering: Not supported”. When I use “connmanctl technologies” I see the following output:

/net/connman/technology/ethernet
Name = Wired
Type = ethernet
Powered = True
Connected = True
Tethering = False
TetheringFreq = 2412
/net/connman/technology/wifi
Name = WiFi
Type = wifi
Powered = True
Connected = False
Tethering = False
TetheringIdentifier = ***
TetheringPassphrase = ***
TetheringFreq = 2412

One time while the hotspot was running I was able to use the tether command and also could found an additional entry:

/net/connman/technology/p2p
Name = P2P
Type = p2p
Powered = False
Connected = False
Tethering = False
TetheringFreq = 2412

Does anyone have an idea how to make that work or what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for you help.

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