how to change between AP and normal wifi

[dineshlama]

I have made my pi 4B as wireless access point. what is the way to chagne the pi from access point to normal wifi and normal wifi instantly with some command? how can i do this, sicne i want the pi to sometiem act like wiresless access point and sometime as a normal pi whcih can connect to other wifi networks.

[drgeoff]

I have several commercial equipments which can operate in AP or station mode. All of them require a reboot when changing from one to the other.

[dickon]

You shouldn't need a reboot. Just kill off hostapd or wpa_supplicant, and run the other one to switch modes. There are issues with dhcp and the like, but you shouldn't need to reboot when switching if you don't want to.