Using Photons at remote locations: How to connect WiFi without me being there

Having made a few of @peekay123 's RGB Pixel Clock using his nice board with an SPI microSD socket, it would have been a lot easier to distribute them to my nephews with the softAP built in. That board though… something like it should be on @IOTrav 's Control Everything offering. :wink: I would love to be able to cost-effectively add a whole lot more web-i-ness to my projects, in the form of good looking HTML front ends (not to impugn the beauty of the current softAP front end, I like it).

I’m working on making some improvements to the Quartz Crystal Night Lights for family the holidays. I have already used softAP and it is a terrific solution… so far, 100% success on remote friends/family adding to their networks.

I’m presently working on developing a few projects; one of which I just finished and will be posting soon. It was mainly using using the WebServer.h so I I had a lot of so-called “fun” trying to write HTML embedded in C++. It was more of a lesson on how not to develop HTML/JavaScript/CSS in embedded C++. Long story short, build your micro-web pages using a great editor, get it all looking and feeling great, then C-ify it. :smirk: Debugging HTML is (even) more difficult having to escape complex string concatenations. :cold_sweat:

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