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Assunto:  Re: Magic spell for PIOS wifi point.
De:       Adrian
Data:     Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:13:53 +0000
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In message <10k06pm$3qvn9$25@dont-email.me>, The Natural Philosopher 
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>Situation: I have one ethernet port in a room near the TV and would 
>like to make the  smart TV not a TV so to speak, and instead drive it 
>from a Pi 5 as a HDMI screen and use the Pi for any or all smart 
>capabilities.
>
>But I also need wifi access to the network in that room as well, and 
>the pi 5 comes with wifi,
>
>But I have never seen it configured as a *bridge* to the network and 
>DHCP server via the Ethernet.
>
>Does anyone have a link to a magic spell book for this configuration?
>

Not a direct answer to your question, but ...

I started looking at doing something similar to this a couple of years 
ago (using the Pi as a WiFi access point in a location beyond the range 
of my router's WiFi).  I didn't complete the task for various reasons, 
but one thing that was clear, was that if I were to do it again, I would 
do the initial configuration of the Pi locally (keyboard etc. plugged 
in) rather than across the network (ssh session) as at each step of the 
way, it seemed that the Pi was inaccessible for something like 20-30 
minutes whilst it sorted out what to do with each configuration change 
(of which there were several needed).

Good Luck

Adrian
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