Hi! One way that customers claim their device through our webapp is connecting to a HTTP page hosted on their device. This device-hosted page then runs through a claim flow that interacts with the SoftAP. It has generally worked well and will successfully claim the device, add the customer to our p…

One of the reasons I found with devices (especially iOS) that won’t connect to the SoftAP is their refusal to connect to a network that does not also provide connection to the internet. Since I have no iOS devices myself I wasn’t able to find the setting to change in order to lift that restriction,…

I think the method is getting more difficult as device OS’s insert more routines into WiFi connections etc that check if the internet is accessible and bail if it isn’t.

Could you say more about this? Are you saying that OS’s are throttling the browsers connection via the browser? If so, do you know if there is a way of knowing which combinations of OS, device, and browser will lead to difficulties?

[image] ScruffR: One of the reasons I found with devices (especially iOS) that won’t connect to the SoftAP is their refusal to connect to a network that does not also provide connection to the internet. @gemfarmer This above rings the bell. I experienced this same thing on an Android phone fe…

I have been playing with this a lot recently and it is not an issue I have ran into with the Photon Soft AP. iOS throws up ‘No internet connection’ warning at first but has no problem connecting. MacOS also connects just fine in my experience. I do recall older iOS versions <10 did not handle it ve…

Based on all of your replies I’m going to assume the issue that we were experiencing is pretty fringe. We have since been able to connect on that computer, but intermittently (almost more annoying). We’ll encourage people to try on a different device if they run into these issues. Thanks so much!

Issues with device-hosted SoftAP

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@gemfarmer, @gusgonnet, this sounds like one and the same problem as listed here: Android 7.1 and SoftAP

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Issues with device-hosted SoftAP

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