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Arduino and mobile app code for the APPideas Lights projects
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Arduino - ESP8266 captive portal #15

Open appideasDOTcom opened 5 years ago

appideasDOTcom commented 5 years ago

It dawned on me that a better way to provide network credentials to the ESP8266 would be to create a captive portal. This would eliminate the need to open a separate web browser.

This would be a significantly better user experience. Quick research shows information from at least these places: https://www.hackster.io/rayburne/esp8266-captive-portal-5798ff https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/DNSServer/examples/CaptivePortalAdvanced/CaptivePortalAdvanced.ino https://yoursunny.com/t/2017/ESP8266-captive-login/