[FEATURE REQUEST] Here document support for particle serial wifi?

[nrobinson2000]

It would be great if Here Documents were supported by particle serial wifi --file. That way I would have a more reliable method for setting up devices from within scripts.

With Here Document support I would be able to do something like:

particle serial wifi --file << PARTICLEWIFI
{
  "network": "my_ssid",
  "security": "WPA2_AES",
  "password": "my_password"
}
PARTICLEWIFI

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I’ve made a GitHub Issue:

Issue: [FEATURE REQUEST] Here document support for particle serial wifi?

[bko]

Hi @nrobinson2000

It already can take a JSON. What would be the advantage of this particular file format over JSON?

Can a P1 be setup to connect to the internet without claiming it?

Do you have a USB serial port on your P1 board? It sounds like you do if you’re programming the initial firmware binary by serial. Have you tried setting the Wi-Fi credentials using particle serial wifi with a JSON file? You can do it entirely automated, before you flash your firmware binary. Create a JSON file with the Wi-Fi credentials: {"network":"xxx","security":"WPA2_AES","password":"xxx"} Then you can set them with a command like: particle serial wifi --port xxx --file wifi.json It s…

[nrobinson2000]

@bko

It already can take a JSON. What would be the advantage of this particular file format over JSON?

This is a JSON. It's just through a heredoc instead of an actual JSON file. The advantage of using this is that scripts wouldn't have to create a file with credentials inside and would instead just send it through with a heredoc.