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by nathan_f77 3190 days ago
That's great! One thing I've always wanted to build is an open source project to manage wifi on Raspberry Pis, with a similar user experience to Chromecast. It would be really useful as a base for hobby projects, as well as real products.

The idea is that if wifi is not configured or can't connect, then the Raspberry Pi would switch to AP mode. When you connect to the SSID, you would see a web page where you can configure your home wifi SSID and password, or choose a network from a list.

Does something like this already exist? I think it could be used in a lot of different projects, including RasPlex [1] and RetroPie [2]. I haven't looked at those projects for a while though, so maybe they already have that feature.

[1] http://www.rasplex.com/

[2] https://retropie.org.uk/
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mdtusz 3190 days ago
The resin.io team has made something like this called resin-wifi-connect[1]. It doesn't appear to be as simple as it could be, but it's prior art if you plan to make something more generalized.

[1] https://github.com/resin-io/resin-wifi-connect

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j_s 3190 days ago
The RaspAP web UI does not support this, yet.

https://github.com/billz/raspap-webgui/issues/21

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albeec13 3190 days ago
That's as fantastic looking application! If I can find some time, maybe I'll consider helping out.
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