I have a RUT360 in my camper van for monitoring security cameras and a Victron power system and to create a WiFi network in the van for internet connection.
To save data on my 4g SIM contract I would like to get the RUT360 to automatically connect to my home ISP WiFi when I park at home and to extend that Wifi into the van.
When I drive away out of range of my home WiFi I want the RUT360 to automatically act as a “failover” device and take over the internet connection via the 4g SIM.
Our devices come equipped with a failover function designed to serve as a backup for your primary WAN connection in the event of a failure. Through the WebUI, you can configure failover settings according to your preferences. When failover is enabled, our devices continually check the internet connection by pinging a specified server (default is 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1). If the primary interface (WiFi) experiences a failure (no response from the server while pinging), the secondary interface (Mobile) is automatically activated. Once the primary interface recovers (starts receiving pings again), the system reverts to using it as the main connection.
More information about failover can be found on our wiki page .
Please let me know if you have any more questions regarding this topic!
I had a look at this and realised I’m a bit out of my depth, I’m very new to setting up a Network so I have to translate the terminology etc.
Before I can set the failover parameters I guess I first need to get the router to use my ISP WiFi as the WAN. I can only see a wired Wan setting and don’t know how to set up a wireless WAN, can you help with this?
Once I’ve got it set up to recognise and use the wireless wan I can then set the priority levels?
Thanks for the information, I have now managed to set up my home wifi through the router and I have set the wifi1 WAN as top priority followed by the mob1s1a1 mobile.
I have the option to set both of these to Failover - each one has and Enable switch and a Failover switch. Do I set both or just one of them. I think I want the wifi1 WAN to be the normal connection and the mob1s1a1 to be the backup so that when I am parked at home it uses my home wifi and when I drive away it uses the mobile connection (and visa versa when I return home).
For the failover, you should enable it for both interfaces: WiFi and mobile. If you prioritize the WiFi network, the router will always use WiFi for internet connectivity. If the WiFi becomes unavailable, the router will automatically switch to mobile. Once the router regains connectivity to WiFi, it will switch back to WiFi as the source of the internet.
If both networks are up and working, they will be displayed as “up,” but the router will use the internet from the highest priority interface.
I hope this clarifies things. Please feel free to ask if you have more questions!
Thanks very much for the information Marija. I had set both interfaces to failover so that’s good.
Could you just explain why I need to set it to failover at all? Wouldn’t just setting the priority of the connections correctly achieve the same thing? So if WiFi was available it would use that as the highest priority and if not then it would use mobile? Is it something to do with the speed that it recognises a problem and swaps to the other interface?
When failover is enabled, the device continually checks the internet connection by pinging a specified server. If the pings are unsuccessful, it immediately switches to another WAN network.
When you configure priorities just in the WAN interfaces without enabling failover, the device will still switch to another available interface, but not as quickly.
So, the main difference is how fast the interface is changed when one becomes unavailable.
