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I'm in the bush far from an internet connections, and want to stream Video from my Drone-controller (Android device) to a MacBook with and RTMP connection. For this to work, I need to get them on the same WiFi network. Android device may not have a SIM, so can't go into hotspot mode. Therefore, the MacBook must be the hotspot.

In MacOS Ventura, I've tried:

Settings -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing -> "Share your connection from "Ethernet Adapter" to computers using "WiFi" -> "Start"

However, since (I'm presuming) the Mac is not actually connected to an ethernet adapter, it does not go into hotspot-mode, and no new network appears for my Android device to connect to.

I can do this if I have another Android device with a SIM card, but I'd like to avoid the need for a third device in this setup.

Is there any way to connect a SIM-less Android device to a MacBook over WIFI without an internet connection or additional mobile device?

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  • Some progress - On the Mac you can create an ad-hoc network if you go "Wifi Settings -> Advanced -> Show Legacy Networks and Options" then "Wifi Icon on top -> Create Network (which should now be visible)..." This creates the network, and now the Android device can see it, but cannot connect to it - possibly because it is unsecured (and the Mac provides no option to create a password)...
    – Peter
    Commented May 19, 2023 at 22:00
  • For what you want to do internet sharing doesn't work. You actually need a router and connect both the same network.
    – ChanganAuto
    Commented May 21, 2023 at 22:18
  • Actually I did get it working using this answer - apple.stackexchange.com/a/343645/109904 , but the cure was worse than the disease in that it messed up my network settings on the Mac. But it at least shows that their is a way.
    – Peter
    Commented May 22, 2023 at 19:13

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CAUTION: Adding the network service in the following step messed up with my network setting, making my apps unable to listen to ports on localhost. If you added the network service this way, remove it with sudo networksetup -deletepppoeservice "AdHoc" and restart the computer fixed the mess for me.

I had the same use case and found the solution in this article.

Essentially the steps are:

  1. Create a new virtual network service using Terminal:

    sudo networksetup -createnetworkservice AdHoc lo0
sudo networksetup -setmanual AdHoc 192.168.1.88 255.255.255.255

  2. Use the Internet Sharing function to create new Wi-Fi network sharing the connection from the AdHoc service we created.

    On macOS Ventura the specific steps are as follow, other version of macOS may be different:

    • System Preferences > General > Sharing
    • Scroll to Internet Sharing and make sure its disabled
    • Click the i icon to config the ad-hoc network: share connection from AdHoc to Wi-Fi, click Wi-Fi Options to config the wifi network
    • Enable Internet Sharing
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