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- Sun Apr 02, 2017 2:06 pm #64523 My ESP8266s are sometimes creating unwanted access points.
I'm using Arduino IDE with WiFiManager library.
I'm not setting the mode of ESP to access point anywhere in my sketch (excluding usage of WiFiManager).
It seems that it happens randomly for various devices and in various times. It's hard to reproduce.
I can't connect to that access point. When I try with my smartphone it keeps connecting.

Unfortunately, since I have a lot of ESPs this problem happens often and it's a big issue since my devices are in remote locations.

Do you have any clue why the ESPs are creating this unintentional access points?

P.S. Some people say it slows down their Internet connection since the ESP's hotspot is on the same channel as their router.

- Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:45 am #64552

My ESP8266s are sometimes creating unwanted access points.
I'm using Arduino IDE with WiFiManager library.
I'm not setting the mode of ESP to access point anywhere in my sketch (excluding usage of WiFiManager).
It seems that it happens randomly for various devices and in various times. It's hard to reproduce.
I can't connect to that access point. When I try with my smartphone it keeps connecting.

Unfortunately, since I have a lot of ESPs this problem happens often and it's a big issue since my devices are in remote locations.

Do you have any clue why the ESPs are creating this unintentional access points?

P.S. Some people say it slows down their Internet connection since the ESP's hotspot is on the same channel as their router.

This is why I ended up moving away from the Arduino framework very early on - as well as being unstable (back then) it abstracted control over stuff like wifi away from me, so was harder to get precise control. I use the SDK directly, and never save AP configuration to the flash, so the AP is never started unless I want it to be.

esp8266 otb-iot software - https://github.com/piersfinlayson/otb-iot
esp8266 otb-iot documentation - https://otb-iot.readthedocs.io/
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