lucaong
Hi all,
recently for I project I needed to be able to configure several WiFi SSID/PSK on the same device, with different priorities (so that the device would preferably connect to one network, but fallback to another one if the first is not available). I noticed that nerves_network does not currently seem to support that. The problem is that, when setting a new entry, nerves_wpa_supplicant currently removes all entries and force select of the new one.
I ended up implementing my own solution on top of nerves_network, if there’s interest in porting this feature to the main library I can share my code.
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well.. do please share - could also make for great blog/medium posts (along with the update thing)..
one thing I wonder is if you do a scan to find available/strongest ssid.. say I have 10+ aps in the known list (or even 100 or 1000).. then a scan for strongest/available aps and then matching against the list of known aps, would make a lot of sense..
anyways just a thought for perfection when/if something like this is hopefully added to nerves_network..
the use case is certainly there.
lucaong
Oh yes that feature would be great. I assume though that it would have to be supported by
wpa_supplicanton whichNervesNetworkand my code both rely.Or maybe it’s possible already? I know
wpa_supplicantallows users to specify priorities, but I don’t know how the algorithm works, nor if it takes signal strength into consideration.Anyway, I will soon share at least a gist. A full generic solution outside of my specific use case will take a bit more polish, but if the Nerves maintainers like the idea I can contribute a pull request.
lucaong
Here’s a gist: Multiple SSIDs with NervesNetwork · GitHub
I am on the go now, but when I have more time I can work on a pull request to
NervesNetworkandWpaSupplicantif there’s interest in it. I would love to hear opinions and comments from the Nerves maintainers.GregMefford
As an update to this, @tmecklem and I independently started working on this feature without realizing that you had already posted here about it so long ago!
Thanks for posting that super-helpful gist! We will take a look and see if there’s anything in there we didn’t think about that we can integrate into the main library, if you’re OK with that.
https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_network/issues/72
tmecklem
Oh yeah! Great stuff, thanks for sharing it!