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I'm looking for a solution for configuring wifi in headless mode, the same way as IoT devices : when not known wifi in range, toggle to AP mode with a predefined SSID, run a small web-server to list available network, and provide inputs to enter network Key.

I didn't find anything, so I'm eager to develop something to solve the problem.

So does someone know a premade solution ? If not, how should I proceed ? Write a script that modifies wicd/wpasupplicant config files ?

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The google coder project does exactly this and I've used it successfully to enter wifi credentials and connect a headless Raspi to a wireless network.

  • copy the coder image to an SD card.

  • Connect to the headless Raspi via a web browser on another computer. The computer must be on the same network as the Raspi.

  • To access your Coder, allow time for it to boot, then visit http://coder.local on your computer.

  • The Raspi, booted with the coder image, starts a web server and after logging into the site a password can be entered to connect to any detected SSID on the next boot.

memebrain
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This might be interesting:

https://github.com/sabhiram/raspberry-wifi-conf

The app is not 100% stable. I still have some problems as described in issue #12.

Martin Schneider
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    Have to try, but it seems to do the job ! Since I ask the question, another project came to life : https://github.com/resin-io/resin-wifi-connect a module from resin.io framework – Tryum Mar 23 '16 at 14:48
  • many thanks for the link, this sounds really interesting. I will try to install it on my pi :-) – Martin Schneider Mar 24 '16 at 16:33
  • I have tested resin-wifi-connect. It requires to download a resin.io image and is not exactly what I was looking for. – Martin Schneider Mar 28 '16 at 21:54
  • It can't be used as a standalone tool ? what a shame :/ – Tryum Mar 29 '16 at 13:02
  • I could not use it as a standalone tool. I had to enter my wifi credentials on the resin.io website before downloading the image. Yesterday I found this repository on Github: https://github.com/jasbur/RaspiWiFi It might be an alternative. I haven't tested it yet. – Martin Schneider Mar 30 '16 at 19:37
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Simple and easy working solution.

https://github.com/balena-os/wifi-connect

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If you want to setup an IoT like network; it will be very painful (a loads of work has to do to make it automate).

For your question I want to share what I have done for automatic network connection. You will have to develop a mobile app (in my case it was android).

First, I gave each device a name and a psk. Then run an encryption on the name and get the generated SSID. Then configure this SSID through wpa_supplicant or hostapd.

base_64(encrypt(ssid + 'delimiter' + psk)) ==> your hostapd/wpa_supplicant ssid

In you android app get the scan list run decryption on the name (only your devices will succeed others will fail). extract SSID and psk. configure wpa_supplicant using the SSID and key.

network_info = split(decrypt(base_64(scan_list)), 'delimiter')
ssid = network_info[0]
psk = network_info[1]

hope this helps :)

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