WiFi SSID

[Dmitry872]

Hey, everybody

 

quick question - do you know how to put WIFI name in settings file?

there is space between WiFi ssid. I tried to do “\ “ and %20 and etc. but still nothing

[Mr-Protocol]

I think it just works if you put a space in there. No escape or special encoding needed.

I would join the discord and ask in the appropriate channel for confirmation.

[dark_pyrro]

I agree to that. The way the croc framework is handling both ESSID and PSK entries in the config.txt file should allow spaces to be a part of the entered string without the need of escaping (or such).

As a matter of fact, I actually disagree with what the docs say about the need of escaping chars when enabling WiFi on the Croc. If escaping chars with backslash (\), that char will also be echoed into the wpa_supplicant.conf file which will make WiFi fail.

[Dmitry872]

18 hours ago, dark_pyrro said:

I agree to that. The way the croc framework is handling both ESSID and PSK entries in the config.txt file should allow spaces to be a part of the entered string without the need of escaping (or such).

As a matter of fact, I actually disagree with what the docs say about the need of escaping chars when enabling WiFi on the Croc. If escaping chars with backslash (\), that char will also be echoed into the wpa_supplicant.conf file which will make WiFi fail.

Just double checked it - it’s not working. Weird 

[dark_pyrro]

In what way did you double check it? Is it a 2.4GHz AP? Is the network hidden? Is it an open network (i.e. no PSK)?

[Dmitry872]

9 hours ago, dark_pyrro said:

In what way did you double check it? Is it a 2.4GHz AP? Is the network hidden? Is it an open network (i.e. no PSK)?

Yep, it’s 2.4 GHz and not hidden

[dark_pyrro]

10 hours ago, dark_pyrro said:

Is it an open network (i.e. no PSK)?

 

[Dmitry872]

1 hour ago, dark_pyrro said:

 

Sorry, missed it. Yep, open, no PSK. Just guest network for guests

[dark_pyrro]

OK, that's probably it then. You need to add a line to /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to get the Croc to connect to open networks

key_mgmt=NONE