ESP32 Wifi Manager

This multi wifi manager runs your ESP32 in a AP+STA mode in a non blocking mode on core 0. This way you can easily start a softAP and scan for Wifi Networks while beeing conntected to some wifi.

You can store multiple SSIDs and it will try to connect, reconnect and optionally fallback to softAP.

Why?

Because all the available solution that I found, where unable to fullfill my requirements.

Focus of this Project

It is only made and tested it on my ESP32 Microcontroller.

How is it working?

First of all, if there is no configuration of a known SSID, it starts an AP. Within the AP you can use your own WebUI using RESTful APIs to configure the AP.
When a initial SSID is stored into the local database, the background task will try to connect to it. On success, the AP will timeout and close it self. You can close the AP if you like to speed that up.
It's possible to add multiple SSIDs to connect to. If there are more known SSIDs, the WifiManager will scan for SSIDs in range and pick the strongest Signal to connect to.
The background task monitors the Wifi status and reconnect if required.

More detailed flow diagram

What do I need to do?

If you want to use this wifi manager, you have to create your own Web UI for it! It won't give you a premade styled UI to configure the SSID credentials.

APIs

Method	Request URL	Json Body	Info
GET	/api/wifi/configlist	none	Get the configured SSID AP list
GET	/api/wifi/scan	none	Async Scan for Networks in Range.
GET	/api/wifi/status	none	Show Status of the ESP32
POST	/api/wifi/add	`{ "apName": "mySSID", "apPass": "secret" }`	Add a new SSID to the AP list
DELETE	/api/wifi/id	`{ "id": 1 }`	Drop the AP list entry using the ID
DELETE	/api/wifi/apName	`{ "apName": "mySSID" }`	Drop the AP list entries identified by the AP (SSID) Name
POST	/api/wifi/softap/start	none	Open/Create a softAP. Used to switch from client to AP mode
POST	/api/wifi/softap/stop	none	Disconnect the softAP and start to connect to known SSIDs
POST	/api/wifi/client/stop	none	Disconnect current wifi connection, start to search and connect

Async scanning

Due to the way scanning is done on a ESP32, it looks like it's common that your client disconnects. So wait long enough between first and second scan. On the 1st request a response body containing {"status":"scanning"} will be send to the client. When you do a scan after long enough wait time, you receive an array of objects. Example:

[ 
   {"channel": 1, "encryptionType": 3, "rssi": -80, "ssid": "My Wifi Network"},
   {"channel": 11, "encryptionType": 0, "rssi": -50, "ssid": "My Public Network"}
]

PS: If you find a way to prevent the client disconnect on scan, please let me know!

Dependencies

This Wifi manager depends on some external libraries to provide the functionality. These are:

Arduino
Preferences
ArduinoJson

Optional:

ESPAsyncWebServer - use compiler flag -DASYNC_WEBSERVER=true (default)

ESPAsyncWebserver vs Arduino Standard Webserver

After it is not possible to use the ESPAsyncWebserver.h dependency in some projects, the simpler standard Arduino WebServer.h can be used. To switch to the legacy Webserver use the compiler flag -DASYNC_WEBSERVER=false.

License

esp32-wifi-manager (c) by Martin Verges.

This project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You should have received a copy of the license along with this work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Commercial Licenses

If you want to use this software on a comercial product, you can get an commercial license on request.

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