There have been a few posts recently about problems about using phones as a Wi-Fi hot spot, and it’s not something that I had tested before, so I thought I’d give it a try with my iPhone 6 Plus. Answer: In the my default configuration, it did not work, but I know why, and it can be worked around. T…

Great detective work! Thanks for sharing this.

Using the Android phone app, connecting to Wi-Fi network “Rick’s iPhone,” with the typographical apostrophe, the name is displayed correctly in the UI, but the app wasn’t able to configure the credentials. The Photon continued to blink blue, and the app eventually displayed “Setup process couldn’t c…

Using Particle CLI under Windows 10, the UI didn’t display correctly. Actually, it generally didn’t see my phone hot spot until I went into Settings - Network, where it did show up, and then the next time I refreshed in the CLI, it did show up in the list with corrupted characters. Selecting this di…

@rickkas7 , thank you for doing this! On the iPhone are you able to see the connected devices? Also can you confirm that your device is actual connected to the internet? In my case (Lumia 950XL Windows Phone 10) my Hotspot’s SSID doesn’t have any special characters. I’ve experienced a few false po…

Yes, I cleared the Wi-Fi credentials cache after each test (hold down setup 10 seconds or so until it fast blinks blue). Also, when the photon to hot spot connection works it shows up on my iPhone that someone has connected through my phone hotspot. And when it doesn’t work the photon will blink blu…

That’s great @rickkas7 ! Thank you for confirming. I wish I has such success :tired_face:

@ScruffR , yes I did. I posted my result there. Basically, even though the Photon thinks it’s connected. The SSID is blank and the IP Address is 0.0.0.0 Aa, I see you’ve posted a reply. I’ll answer there

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@shiv, did you get any chance to test out if my suggestions in the other thread did do any good?

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