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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by catlifeonmars on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @11:27PM (#27535871)
This is great. I needed something like this for bootstrapping headless raspberry pis. I ended up rolling my own ad hoc provisioning script, and packaging it in a custom raspbian image. This seems like a great candidate for inclusion in a Pi distro.
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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by kingosticks on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:18AM (#27537296)
I don't if useful but there are also existing projects like https://github.com/schollz/raspberry-pi-turnkey and https://github.com/sabhiram/raspberry-wifi-config which have the Pi configure an open WiFi AP if a network has not yet been configured which then allow the user to setup their network through a simple wizard-like web interface.
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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by jon-wood on Thursday June 17, 2021 @09:03AM (#27539136)
Open wifi networks for configuration used to be a pretty good solution, but have become less useful since the advent of phones automatically failing over to their mobile connection if the local network can’t route traffic to the internet.
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