wifi.sta.config(ssid,pw) won't work!
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:46 amHi Everybody,
Just started off with NodeMCU, and on the whole I'm very pleased, everything seems to be working fine. I know that, because I tested it using my mobile phone as a hotspot to make a small WLAN.
I ran the primer example with the switching on and off of the two LEDS, no problems.
HOWEVER... the reason I used my phone to make up a WLAN was that I could not log on to my normal wifi, despite all my efforts. In fact, for a while I thought the board might be broken, before I had the thought of using the phone as an AP.
My normal wifi setup has one of those old type 5-byte passwords, rather than a normal random string. I think this may be the problem. (Sorry about my clueless use of wifi nomenclature)
Assuming the password is "A1B2C3D4E5", I tried enetering it as above, to no effect.
I also tried converting to bytes, so that, eg. for the above example I'd have "\161\178\195\212\229", again nothing. No - actually I got back a little protest string "stdin:1: pwd:0,8~64". Not sure what that's about, I think it may have objected to the binary in the string.
In the end, out of desparation I even tried silly strings like "A1-B2-C3-D4-E5", all to no avail.
Any ideas, suggestions, illuminations most appreciated.
Thanks
NodeMCU 0.9
Flash: 20150704 (Lua 5.1)
Linux terminal running "screen" as per most of the tutorials out there.
Just started off with NodeMCU, and on the whole I'm very pleased, everything seems to be working fine. I know that, because I tested it using my mobile phone as a hotspot to make a small WLAN.
I ran the primer example with the switching on and off of the two LEDS, no problems.
HOWEVER... the reason I used my phone to make up a WLAN was that I could not log on to my normal wifi, despite all my efforts. In fact, for a while I thought the board might be broken, before I had the thought of using the phone as an AP.
My normal wifi setup has one of those old type 5-byte passwords, rather than a normal random string. I think this may be the problem. (Sorry about my clueless use of wifi nomenclature)
Assuming the password is "A1B2C3D4E5", I tried enetering it as above, to no effect.
I also tried converting to bytes, so that, eg. for the above example I'd have "\161\178\195\212\229", again nothing. No - actually I got back a little protest string "stdin:1: pwd:0,8~64". Not sure what that's about, I think it may have objected to the binary in the string.
In the end, out of desparation I even tried silly strings like "A1-B2-C3-D4-E5", all to no avail.
Any ideas, suggestions, illuminations most appreciated.
Thanks
NodeMCU 0.9
Flash: 20150704 (Lua 5.1)
Linux terminal running "screen" as per most of the tutorials out there.