Hi, my ultimate goal is to have two photon boards to communicate with each other wirelessly, without the use of any other devices other than the two boards (e.g. no external AP). My approach is to connect photon 1 to photon 2’s SoftAP, and have them communicate via TCP. I encountered the problem t…

WiFi.localIP() does only get set when the device connects to a network, not when the device itself establishes the network (acts as as AP). SoftAP by default exposes an IP address 192.168.0.1 and that cannot be changed as it is part of the 3rd party WICED firmware. Also raw TCP is not (fully) supp…

Assigning static IP for photon in listening mode

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ScruffR September 5, 2020, 7:18am 6

Not quite.
You can modify the hosted website and use these to communicated your custom data.
I've done exactly that in some example implementation quite some time ago.

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Assigning static IP for photon in listening mode

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