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Maximum length for AP password?
Hello,
I can successfully register my AC with the "guest wifi" of a FritzBox, for example: ssid: "Guest", pw: "1234ABCD" But I am not able to register my AC with either the main wifi or the guest wifi with a significant longer password (30-40 characters). The response is always resp={'t': 'ret', 'r': 200, 'mac': 'mac1234'} The wifi AP of the AC shuts down and comes back up after a few moments. Are there any restrictions? Or any ideas? I do not want to change my wifi password to a shorter one (this could weaken security and also I am too lazy).
Kind regards, Daniel
Hi @Daniel-K1986,
My network has a 32-characters long password and my AC units can connect to it without problems. The WPA standard supports 8-63 characters, so the length should not be a problem. Do you have special or accented characters in the password which can't be encoded in plain ASCII?
@Daniel-K1986 Did you get anywhere with this? I have a similar problem (unit accepts the password, get a 200 response, but the built in comes backup after a minute or so). From what I can see in the network logs it connects but never gets an IP address.
My main wifi is UniFi. I have had devices before (Eve Extend) which were flakey with UniFi but that worked perfectly with FritzBox, so that is a concern. I haven't tried a weaker password yet.
Ok made a new SSID on my existing WiFi hardware. Insecure 7 letter password worked straight away, trying again with the same test AP and a 32 character password failed. 31 character then worked. All of the passwords were ASCII, lower case, upper case and numbers. So seems like my model has a limit on the password size.
This was an EcoAir rebrand (the crystal mk2).
Hi, you were faster... ;-) In the end, I connected the ACs with my guest wifi network. And for that network, I changed the password to 26 characters. If I remember I have tested the maximum length and came up with around 30 characters, same as you.
Kind regards,
Daniel