What does "auth_expire" mean?

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2019-01-17 by user91203

Hi. I'm trying to connect to WiFi with a Sonoff Basic. I'm finding that sometimes it will connect with no problems, but other times I keep getting the "auth_expire" message. Does anyone know what the message means?

This seems to be the only related piece of code in Espruino.

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino/blob/5bc873ae381b39504e264d73576535e40b9c0104/libs/network/esp8266/jswrap_esp8266_network.c#L1611

Thanks.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2019-01-17 by @MaBecker

Do you have more than one access point with the same SSID?

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Posted at 2019-01-17 by user91203

No. Although I was thinking about settings that up... Would that be a problem?

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Posted at 2019-01-17 by @MaBecker

Sometime there is a problem with the signal strength and using a antenna would help

Although I was thinking about settings that up... Would that be a problem?

Yes, because code for bssid is missing for now, check this issue

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Posted at 2019-01-19 by user91203

Doh. I tried searching online for this error message again, but this page now comes up as one of the top results. 🤦

Still getting the error quite often. Still no idea what it means.

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Posted at 2019-01-20 by @MaBecker

have you read this?

https://bbs.espressif.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=874&p=35803&hilit=auth_expire#p35803

Try to add a Wifi.disconnect() and than do Wfi.connect() when you get disconnected

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Posted at 2019-01-22 by user91203

I hadn't seen that page, but have have tried calling disconnect() inside the "disconnected" callback, and try to reconnect.