How does WiFi connect work?

[ktodyruik]

Hi,

I was reading through the documentation. I believe connecting an IoT device to a WiFi router easily is an important challenge.

I saw that you use the phone app to do this. How does this work in detail?

How does the Spark device and the smartphone app connect before the device is connected to the WiFi network?

Thanks,
Kerry

[bko]

Hi @ktodyruik

They way to Core gets WiFi credentials today is a feature of the TI CC3000 WiFi chip. Here are the details:

Smart Config - the missing manual now available

I've cross posted this to the Adafruit forums as well, so sorry for duplicating. After mentioning before that I'd been looking into Smart Config in detail I've finally written it all up and I thought you guys (particularly @zachary, @BDub, @zach and @Dave) would be interested: So how does the Smart Config technology used to communicate a network name and password to a CC3000 module work? It seems a little magical (or at least mysterious) at first - a Smart Config setup application must commu…

The new Photon will work in a different way with what is called a “soft-AP”.