Open Access Point Issues

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2020-08-26 by Ken

I'm trying to setup a temporary open access point and no matter what I do, when I upload it to Flash, the console reports an "Uncaught Error: Password must be at least 8 characters"

WIFI.startAP(####, (err)=>{});

and

WIFI.startAP(####, {  authMode: 'open' }, (err)=>{});

Board Information
VERSION 2v06
GIT_COMMIT 21168a2b
BOARD ESPRUINOWIFI
MODULES Flash,Storage,heatshrink,fs,net,dgram,tls,http,NetworkJS,WIZnet,tv,crypto,neo ...

Has anyone else run into this and have a workaround other than setting a password?

Thanks!

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2020-08-27 by @gfwilliams

Sorry, this looks like a bug. It seems like you can just work around it by specifying a password (which will then get ignored):

wifi.startAP('EspruinoAP', { password: '0123456789', authMode: 'open' }, function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("Connected!");
});

However I've just made some fixes so the next version of the Espruino WiFi firmware won't have this issue.

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Posted at 2020-08-27 by Ken

Awesome! Thank you!