I am a Mikrotik hAP ac lite owner. I have situations when my internet provider is doing technical work. Can you please tell me if it is possible to make it so that if the internet goes down, the router will connect to the hotspot that my smartphone gives out?
I’ll try to describe in detail: My router has wi-fi on it called “mikro_5g” and “mikro_24g”. My computer is wired into slot 3 and my provider is wired into slot 1. If the internet goes down, I give out a wi-fi hotspot with the name “Galaxy” from my phone. I need Mirkotik to connect to my phone and redistribute the internet to the wire and to the mikro_5g and mikro_24g points. I need this to work automatically. That is Mikrotik connects to the phone if 2 conditions are met: there is no internet in port 1 and there is a wi-fi hotspot “Galaxy”. Can you please tell me if this is possible?
Yes it’s possible.
IMO detecting primary link events to then control the secondary link while possible is both messy and unnecessary.
Permanent link from hAP Lite to “Galaxy” with a higher default gateway metric is ignored while primary link is up with a lower default gateway metric.
Most of the time “Galaxy” link will be down and I expect the hAP Lite to keep scanning for “Galaxy” emergence without other consequences.
I don’t have hAP Lite experience so just consider this just another possibly crazy idea.