Access point as WiFi router/repeater not working

Question

I have a Raspberry pi as a local weather station, with temperature/humidity sensors connected to over wifi. This works fine. I also have an internet router at home and i wanted to make the raspberry pi an access point for the sensors as well as to be connected to the router (in order to get access to the internet on the raspberry pi).

So the setup should be (from my understanding):

                 wifi                         wifi uplink         wan
sensor1 <~.~.~.~.~> (ap@wlan0)RPi(wlan0) <.~.~.~.~.> router <───> INTERNET
            ╲             ╱               ╲
        (static IP    192.168.1.1        (dhcp
       192.168.1.20)                   from router)

So i followed the "♦ Setup wifi repeater" section, without bridge of this tutorial : Access point as WiFi router/repeater, optional with bridge

I must have failed somewhere, as i'm now stuck. The raspberry is not connecting to my internet router (through wlan0) and seems to be emitting wifi for the sensors (through ap@wlan0) but on 169.254.139.31/16:

After a reboot, ap@wlan0 got "not associated", as wlan0.

Some details:

hostapd was already installed

step 2, here is my /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

interface=wlan0
ssid=ssid_of_router
hw_mode=g
channel=7
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=password_of_router
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
wpa_pairwise=TKIP
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

Step 3, here is my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
network={
    ssid="ssid_for_sensors"
    psk="password_for_sensors"
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}

Step 4, here is my /etc/systemd/network/08-wifi.network

Name=wl*
[Network]
LLMNR=no
MulticastDNS=yes
DHCP=yes
#Adress=192.168.50.60/24
#Gateway=192.168.50.1
#DNS=84.200.69.80 1.1.1.1

Step 4, here is my /etc/systemd/network/12-ap.network

Name=ap@*
[Network]
LLMNR=no
MulticastDNS=yes
#IPMasquerade=yes
Address=192.168.1.1/24
DHCPServer=yes
[DHCPServer]
DNS=84.200.69.80 1.1.1.1

So my internet router address is 192.168.0.1 and the access point for sensors should be 192.168.1.1, so sensors with ip address 192.168.1.x can connect to it. Where did i make something wrong ? Feel free to ask for other details.

Thank you for your help !

François

Access point as WiFi router/repeater not working

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