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Public repo for bugs and issues with Meadow
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Meadow HotSpot #215

Open upswing1 opened 2 years ago

upswing1 commented 2 years ago

New feature request: Meadow Wifi Hotspot and simple webserver used for setup. Example setup a WIFI password on a headless device

Redth commented 2 years ago

Would like to see this as well. Ideally we could start a wifi AP listening and serve a web page up for those connected to it which would in turn allow us to scan for access points around the device, and create a flow for the user to entire the network info to connect with. On subsequent restarts, the info would be cached to not start up in AP mode again. This is a pretty typical flow, and something that is relatively easy to do in arduino with libraries out there.

I'd be interested in trying to build such a nuget package to handle the whole flow if the core API's for creating an AP are available!

jnanneng2 commented 1 year ago

Connecting directly to the meadow over a WiFi connection would be a nice feature addition. BLE isn't always appropriate and deploying these devices in a remote location where a network connection is not available is a legitimate scenario. It would be super nice to use a client device (such as a phone) to communicate directly with the meadow over WiFi.