Setting/Reseting wifi credentials using Particle Javascript SDK

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Hey everyone,

I’m looking to be able to reset, or update the wifi credentials on photons that will be in varies locations without actually have to be there. Any suggestions?

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Hi @pres_10

You can set unto 5 credentials ahead of time using

WiFi.setCredentials("SSID", "PASSWORD", WPA2, WLAN_CIPHER_AES));

The doc is here:

https://docs.particle.io/reference/firmware/photon/#setcredentials-

Here is the thing that trips people up: for offline networks, you must pass in the security type (i.e. WLAN_CIPHER_AES) since this cannot be discovered later.

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Thanks!

I notice from other threads that if someone wanted to add a new creds, or replace one of the existing 5 creds they would have to do it manually. Can I do that remote?

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Seeing as the call @bko mentioned is in firmware, I see no reason why you couldn’t use a Particle.function() to do that. Your device will need to be online for that to work though, so you’ll have to set the new credentials before disconnecting from the current network.

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@bko @Moors7

Trying it out now.