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          The Natural Philosopher  wrote:

> Situation: I have one ethernet port in a room near the TV and would like 
> to make the  smart TV not a TV so to speak, and instead drive it from a  Pi
> 5 as a HDMI screen and use the Pi for any or all smart capabilities.
> 
> But I also need wifi access to the network in that room as well, and the 
> pi 5 comes with wifi,
> 
> But I have never seen it configured as a *bridge* to the network and  DHCP
> server via the Ethernet.
> 
> Does anyone have a link to a magic spell book for this configuration?

If I've understood correctly, turning the RPi into an access point would
do half of what you want.  I installed OpenWRT on an RPi4 a few weeks ago,
and it was very successful as an AP, although the need for it didn't last
long (my son installed a new mesh network, which gave whole house
coverage).  Note that the RPi4 only does one wifi band; I don't know the
RPi5.

I'm not an expert on OpenWRT, so you'll need to web search for information.

As for the other half of what you want, there might be enough processing
power left over.  You haven't given us any detail of what you want to do
in that regard.

David

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