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The management repo of the irrigation system
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Understand which were the problems with using eduroam WiFi #2

Closed chenlijun99 closed 1 year ago

chenlijun99 commented 1 year ago

Things to consider:

  1. Which (whose?) eduroam credentials to use for the deployed system?
  2. Will the eduroam network be available in every deployment site? If not, we'll need to fallback to cellular network (i.e. use SIM).
  3. ✅ ESP32 supports WiFi EAP authentication (see https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/v5.0.1/esp32/api-guides/wifi.html#wpa2-enterprise). So yeah, we can directly connect each ESP32 to eduroam. 3.1. Storing eduroam credentials on each ESP32 is undesirable. Why? Is that a security issue? What's our security model? Or is that a burecracy issue related to item 1? 3.2. Anyway, we could have a single ESP32 where we store the eduroam credentials. That special ESP32 can work as eduroam forwarder. See #3 . That's certainly very cheap.
euberdeveloper commented 1 year ago

3.1 I wouldn't put my credentials in a device that anyone can take

euberdeveloper commented 1 year ago

3.2 seems better

euberdeveloper commented 1 year ago

Ok, so the idea now would be:

  1. buy two ESP 32 and use one to setup this forwarder solution
  2. look for a professional hotspot and buy it

I close this issue because of #3