I’m using the hotspot software and it seems to interfere with the APs for the hotspot. When I turn it on, I can’t log into the APs even though I’m on the inside, have the APs on a different subnet, and I have a static IP on my computer. Is this some feature of the software?
Normally that is caused by the hotspot’s 1:1 NAT. It uses ARP poisoning to intercept requests to localnet IPs from any device on the localnet.
Try disabling the 1:1 NAT. You do that by setting the hotspot address pool to none.
/ip hotspot
set 0 address-pool=none