ESP8266 Community Forum

- Mon Mar 14, 2016 6:03 pm #43148 When I connect multiple devices to the ESP's AP it seems to put the clients in some sort of isolated mode. Does anyone know of a way to control this behaviour somehow? Has anyone had any success in getting 2 (or more) WiFi clients connected to a (single) ESP8266 running in AP mode and able to communicate with each other?

I'm running a LoLin development board with an ESP8266 ESP-12 running the NodeMCU firmware (latest available as of today).

To get what I want done I'd be willing to consider another firmware if needs be.

- Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:24 am #43178 AFAIK, it is a hardware limitation.

- Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:21 pm #43258 Wound.

Ok. I'll have to approach this a different way. Thanks anyway.

- Wed Mar 16, 2016 3:01 pm #43327 There is no packet routing in the firmware so it's not a true Wifi Access Point Router

I imagine you could do it in theory by writing the appropriate firmware or modifications to the LWIP libary, but it's a monumental task and I don't think the CPU is going to handle any decent throughput.

If you look at the Espressif Mesh library in the SDK, it does handle communication between nodes throughout the network, including P2P devices connected to the same ESP8266 wifi AP host. Could very well be a viable option if you're only talking ESP8266 nodes not a general laptop or something.

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