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Detect when device fails to connect to selected access point (e.g. incorrect password)
Is there a way to get explicit signal when connection to the selected access point fails because of something like an incorrect password?
I can see that wifi-connect automatically restarts the hotspot if the provided credentials are wrong, but it would be helpful to have an option that would prevent this retry behavior so I can catch it with my program and show feedback.
Ideally this would be communicated through a return code from wifi-connect, where 0 is successful connection and anything else indicates failure.
@charliesneath that's a really nice idea, which I think could be easily implemented. We can add a --no-retry argument for this. This will be definitely helpful for applications which control externally wifi-connect as it will provide finer control over its behavior. I will try to get it done in the next days.
@majorz Awesome, the --no-retry tag is just what I had in mind. This will be a big win since it will provide much more control over the user experience (as you mention).
@majorz Have you been able to make any progress adding this additional argument for disabling retries?
Is there a way to get explicit signal when connection to the selected access point fails because of something like an incorrect password?
I can see that
wifi-connectautomatically restarts the hotspot if the provided credentials are wrong, but it would be helpful to have an option that would prevent this retry behavior so I can catch it with my program and show feedback.Ideally this would be communicated through a return code from
wifi-connect, where 0 is successful connection and anything else indicates failure.
Indeed a fairly simple idea to implement! Is there any update on this?
Checking in to see if this is still planned. Would be a very helpful feature to ensure that an app can notify users when a wifi password was wrong. Thank you, @majorz !