ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Dec 27, 2015 11:48 am #37242 hi everybody,
im trying out the esp8266 as acces point using the example code "WifiAccespoint", after fixing my previous problem by adding wifi.disconnect before creating the acces point.
now when i connect to the accespoint with my laptop it gives me these parameters.

Code: Select allipv4: 169.254.145.161
subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
default gateway: none.

when i try to connect to 192.168.4.1 it wont let me, so i manually set my laptop ip to these:

Code: Select allipv4: 192.168.4.4
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
default gateway: 192.168.4.1

Code: Select allpreferred dns: 8.8.8.8
alternate dns: 8.8.4.4

my laptops successfully connects to the device and i can see the HTTP server from the example and my android phone will try to connect to the device only to say it couldn't.


what i want to do is connect a smart phone or laptop without setting the ip manually, the esp8266 isnt connected to any other device or router, im not sure if the esp8266 can handle connections as a dhcp server, so this is why im asking for an example.

- Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:13 pm #37271 That is a bit strange !
The WiFiAccessPoint example works as is, and DHCP should deliver an IP address to your laptop.
Did you tried with some other clients ?