How does WiFi connect work?

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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

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Hi @ktodyruik

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

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