B4R Question Connect the ESP8266 to an Accesspoint with an specific MAC address

[Chris160179]

Hello everybody,

is there a way to connect the ESP8266 to an specific Mac address of Accesspoint.
I have 3 Accesspoints, every Accesspoint has his own MAC address but the same SSID.

The ESP8266 connects somtimes to the wrong Accesspoint not really in range.


Thank you

 

[Erel]

Download rESP8266WiFi v1.32: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/updates-to-internal-libraries.76644/#post-551403

You can now set the bssid:

Dim bc As ByteConverter
Log(wifi.Connect3("dlink", "", 0, bc.HexToBytes("6C11111BEF8")))

 

[bdunkleysmith]

I am using rESP8266WiFi v1.50 and it seems Connect3 connects to the network even if the BSSID is not correct.

Is this the expected functionality?

That is if BSSID matches an access point then that is the one connected to, but if there is no matching BSSID then any randomly selected access point with the correct SSID and password will be connected to.

I presume the syntax of my code is correct:

    GlobalStore.Put(2, wifi.ScannedBSSID(i)) 'BSSID



    If wifi.Connect3(bc.StringFromBytes(GlobalStore.slot0), bc.StringFromBytes(GlobalStore.Slot1), 0, GlobalStore.Slot2) = False Then
        Log("Error connecting to network")
        Return
    Else
        Log("Connected to network: ", GlobalStore.Slot0)
        Log("MAC address: ", GlobalStore.Slot2)
    End If

If I put in a random hex string, say "F81A6742DC95", in lieu of GlobalStore.Slot2, then it still connects to the network and so I am wondering how I know when I put in the correct BSSID that I'm going to connect to the correct access point.

 

[Erel]

This is the expected behavior. The purpose of the BSSID parameter is to select the correct access point when there are several access points with the same SSID.

See this discussion: https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/issues/3028