WiFi Handler for WPA2 Enterprise networks

[jaimemi]

Hi 👋🏻

I have been struggling some time to connect my Arduino MKR1010 to the Arduino IoT Cloud by my university wifi network, which asks a username and password (WPA2 WiFi network).

For Arduino MKR1010, Arduino_ConnectionHandler establish a connection by creating a WiFi object from WiFiNINA and calling the method .begin(). This method only allows connections with WPA networks (SSID & Password).

If the method .beginEnterprise() from WiFiNINA was included in the class WiFiConnectionHandler fromArduino_WiFiConnectionHandler.cpp, it would be possible to connect to WPA2 Enterprise networks such as eduroam. Again, it only works for devices using WiFiNINA instead of WiFi101. I don’t know if there exists a similar method for the latter.

Lastly, I tried it myself and it works. It only took me minutes to update the code. And it doesn’t change what is made already.

Thanks for the nice library you created!

[facchinm]

Hi @jaimemi , feel free to post your patch and we'll be happy to review and merge it :slightly_smiling_face: Thanks for reporting, the use case looks very interesting!

[jesmith-all]

@facchinm @jaimemi see pull request #65

Believe this is more or less what @jaimemi is advocating for.

[jesmith-all]

I'll add that the alternative at the moment for students is to setup a Thing as you would want on IoT Cloud, then move to the online IDE, download the IoT Cloud generated sketch, modify a local copy of this library (as in #65), and then upload it from the offline IDE.

That's pretty clunky — I'm writing up a guide for this at the moment. Would be great to have the option to work from the online IDE or even just IoT Cloud.