The GK-WiFi

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7 years 9 months ago - 7 years 9 months ago #2241 by fermintm
Replied by fermintm on topic The GK-WiFi
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Last edit: 7 years 9 months ago by fermintm. Reason: Problem solved

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7 years 1 month ago #2981 by NW8R
Replied by NW8R on topic The GK-WiFi Build
This GK-WIFI along with the GK-5B was a lot of fun to build! Excellent instructions and available information. It's nice that the kit includes extras! I have built many kits starting back as far as 1972 I have put together more than 17 Heathkits and another 10 or so Ham radio kits. I even built the Sol-20 computer back in the 70's

Today's kits are so much better with the instructions and HQ photos available via the internet. A high quality soldering station helps.

Attached are photos of the completed project to get up and running on Radmon.

Thank you John!
Great package!
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7 years 3 days ago - 7 years 3 days ago #3114 by NW8R
Replied by NW8R on topic The GK-WiFi kit question
Hi group.
Can anyone using the GK-WiFI kit explain why the device shows up on WiFi as a wireless access point ? My kit is running version 1.7 and I used the GK-WiFi_v1_7.ino to program the kit.

It has been running fine and it is connected to a guest network.
It shows up as a wireless network named (ssid) ESP_0C0DA6 and my home devices ( iPad, iPhone ) keep connecting to it. When the GK-WiFi is not powered on, the WiFi name ESP_0C0DA6 disappeared and my devices reconnect to my home router.

I have examined the Arduino sketch and cannot find any reason it is acting as a WiFi access point.
I'm wondering if this may be a security issue?
Is anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?
I'm looking for a way to disable the GK-WiFi from broadcasting a SSID and blocking outside connections to it for security prior to placing it inside a network.

Thanks for any info you can provide!
Regards, Bob.

Found the answer. See next reply.
Last edit: 7 years 3 days ago by NW8R. Reason: Update

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7 years 3 days ago - 6 years 11 months ago #3115 by NW8R
Replied by NW8R on topic The GK-WiFi kit question
I found the answer to my question about disabling Access Point Mode.

The ESP8266 defaults to access point mode enabled and it will broadcast a ssid at your location.
In order to turn this off, you need to modify the sketch with a extra statement in the Arduino sketch.

Under the first tab in the sketch scroll down to the WiFi.begin statement and add the following statement on the line prior to Wifi.Begin:
WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); // set sta turns off access point ssid

Here is what lines in the sketch will look like:

WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA); // set sta turns off access point ssid
WiFi.begin(ssid, password); // connect to the network
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
delay(500);

Reference ESP8266 command:
WiFi.mode(m): set mode to WIFI_AP, WIFI_STA, or WIFI_AP_STA.
Last edit: 6 years 11 months ago by NW8R. Reason: Update
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7 years 3 days ago #3116 by BroHogan
Replied by BroHogan on topic The GK-WiFi
Thank you much Bob.
I have not seen this myself, but I've heard of it happening once before.
I've added the "WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);" line to the next version of the sw.

Nice to hear that you are enjoying the kit.
John
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