Hi Is there any way of changing the SSID of the Photons soft AP? We are doing a demo and would very much like it to show our product name instead of Photon-XXX //Henrik

@henkep , I’m guessing that if you build locally, you can change these 2 lines. I’m not sure if this is linked anywhere else or what implications would be by changing it. [image]

There was a similar question before, maybe you can bump that one :wink: [image] Photon SoftAp Name Is it possible to change Photon Soft Ap name? Currently it shows up as "Photon-XXXX".

Photon memory map - https://github.com/spark/docs/issues/82 - shows where to change the SSID prefix, but doesn’t tell the format except it’s in softap.cpp. This must be FAQ and described somewhere but I couldn’t find it. So, this is how to do it. $ echo “My Cool Prefix Here” | perl -ne ‘chop; pri…

If you change the SSID, the mobile apps and the particle CLI won’t find the device, which would seem to reduce the usefulness of SoftAP mode. Please tell me more about your use case for making the SoftAP mode name configurable. Cheers, mat.

How do you figure that? If a Photon ever should be used commercially I don´t think many companies would like to use the Particle app or Particle-CLI for claiming devices. That is why Particle have released the libraries for iOS development and so on. We are developing a commercial product and of c…

Hi @henkep , that makes perfect sense, sorry wasn’t thinking clearly, and thinking back to how things were for very early versions of the mobile SDK. The format of the SSID in memory is 1-byte for the length of the SSID prefix N-bytes for the SSID prefix. This is something that we’ll add to firmw…

No worries. :smile: Any ETA on when that firmware change can be in effect? //Henrik

Any news wrt this matter? This is something that is critical for the application I am currently working on as well.

There is a way to set the SSID using DFU on each photon - does that help as an interim solution until we add this to firmware?

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ScruffR July 24, 2015, 3:54pm 3

There was a similar question before, maybe you can bump that one

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