I'm not immediately understanding what the user scenario/story is. Would a family member open this web app on a desktop computer, in order to obtain the WiFi credentials to configure their phone or tablet?
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Or on their phone.
Most of the time it’s used to help guests get onto the wifi quickly.
I also find it handy to get the wifi password when on-boarding smart devices or whatever new gadget.
But how do they connect to your network in order to access this web app? If the WiFi network credentials are needed to access the network that has the QR code for the network credentials, this sounds like a Catch 22.
Also, is a QR code useful if the web app is opened on the very phone needing the credentials? Perhaps other phones are different, but my smartphone is unable to scan a QR code that is on the display.
So guests use their phone data to access a publicly available list of WiFi credentials and then use that to connect to your home network????
You pull it up on another phone.
The owner pulls it up on THEIR phone, so you can just have the guest scan the QR code.
Edit: or my usecase would be to put it on a tablet that I have on a stand near the front door.
My LineageOS phone already has a "share WiFi" feature that displays a QR code as well as the SSID and passcode I thought this was standard on all modern phones
My phone has that too... but only for the signed in network. Not for other networks that are saved on the device. I have a guest network that I shove guests on that have some restrictions (blocked from homelab network for the most part). I would need to swap to that network myself then click share...
For me that's under Internet > Saved Networks > network name > Share, instead of doing it from the main list of networks
I guess it is! Never saw that there... Bunch of clicks to get to it though. A link to a page is much simpler IMO...
Since Android 10 (LineageOS 17.1/OneUI 2.0) March 2019, and iOS 18 July 2024.
This is awesome!! Thank you for sharing this! Imaa have this on my home tablet i keep in the dining room
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