Setting up Photon with WEP WiFi security

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That's the key - WEP networks are a little special. (You mentioned previously the WiFi was WPA. :smile:)

To setup WEP on the photon requires you add some extra information to the WEP password, specifically:

  • the index of the WEP key (0-3) (in your router it's probably labelled 1-4, so just subtract 1)
  • the length of the key, typically 5 or 13 bytes
  • the key itself

For example, let's say we have the key 123456789A at index 0, then this would be written as

0005123456789A

Breaking that down:

  • 00 - this is the key index 0. Other possible values are 01, 02, 03.

  • 05 - this is the length of the 40-bit key (5 bytes - it's the number of letters/numbers in the key divided by 2). Another possible value is 0D for 104-bit keys.

  • 123456789A - the remainder is the actual key

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