Hello all,
I am trying to set up a network to read data from my solar inverter's Modbus. This Huawei unit allows for ModbusTcp connection but only from it's own network (192.168.200.0/24). So my idea was to use this Gl-Inet mango router I had lying around and use its WiFi in client mode.
My main network (192.168.86.0/24) is a wireless Google mesh with a unmanaged switch to provide for wired connections. The idea is that I access and configure the mango router through ssh 22, ssl 443 and bridge ModbusTcp wired to wlan (192.168.200.1:6607 for the Huawei unit) through the main network.
I already reserved dhcp 192.168.86.30 for the mango router and am able to ssh and access admin/Luci through my main network. But the second part, setting up the wireless adapter in client mode is giving me trouble, I don't fully understand how I should set this up. Reading multiple sources of examples confuse me even more as usually they are designed to introduce a wired-only device to an existing wireless network. If I put the mango router in extender mode, the unit is no longer accessible, the wireless network is visible but also inaccessible and I have to reset the unit.
Is it even possible to have the unit in my main lan while being client of a different network through wireless?