I just booted up my spark core and used the app to provide it the network credentials. How does it work under the hood? When I think about it, my phone was on a wifi network and the spark was not, but it still received the credentials. I am just curious to know.

Spark Core Credential Transmission Method

bko May 23, 2014, 10:26pm 2

Another forum member wrote up a nice description of how it works over here:

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