Captive portal in AP mode

sticilface / ESPmanager

Full wifi and OTA manager for ESP8266

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Captive portal in AP mode #9

Closed probonopd closed 7 years ago

probonopd commented 8 years ago

The instructions say "Now visit http://X.X.X.X/espman/ and it should work". This is cumbersome and difficult to communicate. It would be better if in AP mode ESPmanager would answer all nameserver requests with its own IP address. This way we could tell users "connect to the AP and then visit any URL, you will be directed automatically".

The DNSServer library has the needed "captive portal" functionality.

Tutorial: https://www.hackster.io/rayburne/esp8266-captive-portal-5798ff

sticilface commented 7 years ago

I've implemented this, and will release it shortly. I'm also working on a set up wizard to make it all pretty easy to configure!