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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by brokenmachine on Monday January 31, 2022 @09:55PM (#30158068)
How do you set the wifi password if there's no screen that is capable of showing information?

If it has a screen then surely it's possible to show its current status.

Or, and bear with me because this is a really crazy idea... how about a single LED to show it's busy?

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Re:My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmw... by pmontra on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:13AM (#30159190)
There is no need of a screen. Either a WPS button or start in access point mode, find its IP address, connect to a web server on that address and set the SSID and password there. I got stuff doing both ways upon the first start up or after a factory reset.
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