Set up photon with different wifi credentials

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Sometimes think it would be a good idea to have a ‘Advice’ category…

ANyway,

I am developing an application on a photon - it is chugging along nicely (after I found the hint from Scruff on how to compile with local atom when using Fastled - search really helps - thanks Scruff!)

ANyway, as I said the development is going well and I am using my local WIFI at home (between being asked to look after grandkid :frowning:

Eventually when I get the project complete, I will be deploying it to my office which is obviously on another WIFI network. Also obviously I have the credentials to connect to that WIFI but I am seeking advise on the best method to ‘register’ this other network from home so when I take the finished project into work it will connect automatically.

I believe I can store (5) sets of WIFI network credentials in the photon and I assume like my Iphone that the photon will connect to whichever one is physically available.

I assume that I would (at home) use WIFI.setCredentials (specifying the security type because the network will be essentially ‘offline’).

FWIW - the project will monitor a microphone and sample ‘x’ period of time (or until a break of silence is encountered). It will send this to a speech API and get the plain text returned.

After evaluating the text looking for specific words (naughty words), it will set the next not-red of an array (24) of neopixels. Over time these leds will ‘decay’ - i.e the topmost red will fade to black, followed by the next one etc.

It may work - then again it may not - only one way to find out :slight_smile:

If anyone has a small amount of time could they advise re if my plan (using wifi.setCredentials) is viable?

Stan

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Using a serial terminal, you can set new credentials. So can the CLI. Using the latter, choose to manually enter them, rather than have them being searched for automatically.

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Thanks for the kind words :blush:

And nice idea, I’ll be interested to hear how it’ll turn out.

As @Moors7 said, you can do this from outside via USB (serial terminal like PuTTY or CLI), but in order to store the credentials of a non-present WiFi network, you need to know the security cipher (WLAN_CIPHER_AES, WLAN_CIPHER_TKIP or WLAN_CIPHER_AES_TKIP) of your network too and entering a WEP passphrase is not straight forward either (rather change to WPA2 ;-))

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Thanks Scruff - I too am looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

I normally get about 5 minutes a day to work on it due to having to perform toddler/granddaughter wrangling duties (Daughter and Bub are staying at our place).

But will see what happens!

gave a good one.

Stan