Configure wifi from (custom) app without logging in?

Firmware
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Thanks for this great document @rickkas7. Everything works as expected until I interact with the photon in listening mode.

For example curl http://192.168.0.1/device-id just hangs. I can ping 192.168.0.1.

I'm running firmware 0.6.2.

Is running firmware version 0.6.2 default install enough? From this post it you mention SoftAP is not included in core: Photon SoftAP Repository?.

Thanks in advance.