Networks
| Network | Signal | Ch | Security |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connect to a board, then scan. | |||
Known networks
| Network | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| Connect to a board. | ||
Every network the board has joined, most recent first, up to ten — in range or not. Whether one
is in range comes from the last scan. A known network joins with no password typed.
Join
A network that joins is remembered in the board's EEPROM journal, and the board rejoins it
at power-up with no host attached. Leave network drops the link but keeps
what is remembered. The board remembers every network it has joined, up to ten; one it knows is
marked KNOWN in the list and rejoins with no password typed, and at power-up the board
joins the strongest known one in range. Forget takes the picked network off
the list, or every network if nothing known is picked, and leaves it. The password is sent to the board as typed and is
never stored by this page — the board does not print it back either.
Be a hotspot
Off
With no network to join, a board is reachable over this cable and nothing else. Told to be
a hotspot, it carries its own: associate with it and everything is at
192.168.4.1.
It is a setting, not a rescue: the board does not become a hotspot because a network is
missing, and does not stop being one because a network turned up. It does what it was last
told, across power cycles. Stop lowers it and keeps the name and key;
Forget key takes them out of the journal, which is what a board being
passed on wants. An open hotspot is refused — the key is the only thing between the board's
console and anyone in range.
The hotspot is a way to the board, not a way out. A laptop with a cable
keeps the internet on the cable and reaches
192.168.4.1 over the hotspot, both
at once. A phone has only the hotspot and its mobile data, so it keeps mobile data and
sends http://192.168.4.1/ down that — switch mobile data off
and the board answers. A VPN takes the default route and does the same to a machine that
would otherwise have been fine. The association succeeds in every case, which is what makes
it confusing rather than obvious.
Log
Connection
- Link
- Disconnected
- Radio
- —
- Network
- —
- Signal
- —
- Channel
- —
- Address
- —
- Gateway
- —
- Known
- —
- Hotspot
- —
- Hotspot name
- —
- Hotspot address
- —
- Hotspot clients
- —
- Free heap
- —
Console over the network
Once the board has an address it listens for the same SCPI console on TCP, so a terminal reaches it without the cable.
—
Port 2001 is mipcon's default. A browser cannot open a raw TCP socket, so this page stays on
USB or Bluetooth — the address is for a terminal elsewhere.
Board
- Board
- —
- Firmware
- —
The radio is on the ESP32 boards. A Melexis IO board on STM32 answers everything else but
has no
:WiFi: commands.