Communicating between 2 photons with softAP

[mdma]

This will be possible later in the year, but not at present.

Please see these related threads:

WiFi Direct with Photon

@mdma, a related topic to that of WiFi Direct is whether Photons could be configured to implement distributed functionality with the IoTivity.org Arduino library. IoTivity is a middleware that runs atop an OS/RTOS/loop to bring a common API for device discovery and interaction. I think it would be an interesting advance if IoTivity protocols could run on Photons, using CoAP likely. This interaction would not involve the cloud, and appears to be possible via either peer-to-peer or a local router. …

Photon softAP usage?

Just a simple question - is the photon softAP mode for wifi client configuration only, or can it be normally used together with a client ? And how about the wifi mesh - this was not possible with core, how about photon ? I’m thinking about tens of photons chained together (with only first of them being in the range of the wifi AP), talking with each other. Using spark cloud (if possible) or any other network communication method if not.