Just a simple question - is the photon softAP mode for wifi client configuration only, or can it be normally used together with a client ? And how about the wifi mesh - this was not possible with core, how about photon ? I’m thinking about tens of photons chained together (with only first of them …

@emilkl - Interesting idea. But does the user code run in SoftAP mode? I didn’t think so. If not, then this strategy would only be useful when the Photon already has credentials.

@mebrunet , have you given the links in this post a read? [image] ScruffR: This might be interesting in this regard https://github.com/spark/firmware/pull/906 That is milestoned for 0.5.0, which should go public not too far from now. Milestones - particle-iot/device-os · GitHub

Right, @mdma had linked me to that last week and talked about turning those SoftAP pages into a library. Curious to play with it when released and stable, but pretty over loaded with other stuff right now.

@nexxy , I have downloaded the softap-setup-js from github but I noticed that config.js is missing when I looked at basic-setup.js in the example folder. Would you add or let me know that config.js file. thanks.

[image] mebrunet: When you're happy with the changes and want to make it available to your clients just host it with any 3rd party service, e.g. GoDaddy. Hi @mebrunet , I hosted on Digital Ocean and it doesn't work. What am I missing? I simply modified the HTML to my branding and hosted it and…

Any noteworthy output in the console perhaps?

[image] Moors7: Any noteworthy output in the console perhaps? Hi @Moors7 , thanks for responding. There is no error....I should have been clearer. The HTML page works. I sent you a private message with the IP address. I just spun up the server on Digital Ocean yesterday to do a test - so I hav…

@dancingpearl - There are two ways to use the repository of SoftAP setup tools I put together. Hosted from an external server: In this case the user should visit the url where you are hosting the setup page, e.g. this demo I have setup, and follow the instructions. The first step requires they c…

[image] mebrunet: @dancingpearl - There are two ways to use the repository of SoftAP setup tools I put together. Hosted from an external server: In this case the user should visit the url where you are hosting the setup page, e.g. this demo I have setup, and follow the instructions. The firs…

See this thread to change SSID.

Photon softAP usage?

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dancingpearl October 4, 2016, 3:29pm 272

Hmmm. I don’t follow.

I was able to change the SSID using the steps here: Change Photon SSID.

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