Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Bluetooth LE

Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by IshKebab on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:21AM (#27537309)

I think there are two issues with trying to get adoption for this in mainstream products:

1. Loads of products that have this problem use a wifi hotspot to do that transfer instead. Yes it sucks, but they don't want to pay for BLE that is only used for the connection process.

2. Both Apple and Android already have wifi-based connection processes built into the OS that have the enormous advantage of being able to fiddle with your WiFi settings and access your WiFi passwords. If you use those systems the connection process is actually reasonably slick (and if you don't it is the most awful thing ever).

Good luck though. I worked on the WiFi connection process for a product and the whole thing is a complete mess. Any improvement is a good thing.

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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by jmuguy on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:56AM (#27538603)

This may be a stupid question but I was actually looking for this the other day - what is the existing way to do this specifically with iOS? I couldn't find any sort of docs or SDK describing how I might setup a device to talk to iOS and get on the local wifi.

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Re:Improv Wi-Fi: Open Standard for Setting Up Wi-Fi via Blue... by IshKebab on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:17PM (#27542004)

As I recall it's all via MFi (Made For iPod, etc.) which unfortunately isn't accessible to the average man on the street. All behind NDAs in a special developer portal. Typical Apple.

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