Automatic Router Selection for ESP8266

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1. Hi,

   Arduino ESP8266 framework implement an interface called ESP8266WiFiMulti that allows just what you need. I’ve not tested it but reading the file in https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino/blob/master/libraries/ESP8266WiFi/src/ESP8266WiFiMulti.h you may have a list of SSID and passwd pairs. ESP uses it to select the best AP looking at RSSI level.

   Regards

2. The ESP-13’s supposedly have 10db more, due to better RF design. That might solve your weak signals problem without needing to code…

   1. Hence my question – have you done any comparisons – and if not – do you have time to do any? I would not be the only one in here interested in your input…

3. Hi Pete,

   I’ve implemented this but I use the Arduino ESP8266 framework and the supplied Wifi libraries make getting a list of all available access points with their corresponding signal strengths, encryption properties etc very easy.

   I setup a C array with each entry having an access point SSID and the corresponding password. It’s then a case of obtaining the available Wifi SSIDs and running down the C array looking for a match.

   Code looked like this (hope formatting works)

   // WiFi network parameters
   // One row per known WiFi network
   // For each network
   // column 1 == SSID
   // column 2 == Wifi password
   // column 3 == thingspeak API key to use when logging data

   const String wifiNetworks[networks][3] =
   {
   { “YOUR SSID”, “YOUR WIFI PASSWORD”, “YOUR THINGSPEAK API CODE”},
   };

   boolean findNetwork ()
   {
   boolean selected=false;

   // scan for nearby networks:
   Serial.println(“** Scanning Networks **”);
   int numSsid = WiFi.scanNetworks();
   if (numSsid == -1)
   {
   Serial.println(“No Wifi networks found”);
   return selected;
   }

   // print the list of networks seen:
   Serial.print(“Number of available networks: “);
   Serial.println(numSsid);

   Serial.println ( “Network list” );

   // print the network number and name for each network found:
   for (int thisNet = 0; thisNet<numSsid; thisNet++) {
   Serial.print(thisNet);
   Serial.print(") SSID: ");
   Serial.print(WiFi.SSID(thisNet));
   displayEncryptionType(WiFi.encryptionType(thisNet));
   Serial.print("\tSignal: ");
   Serial.print(WiFi.RSSI(thisNet));
   Serial.println(" dBm");
   for ( int i=0; i< networks && !selected ; i++ ) {
   if ( wifiNetworks[i][0]==WiFi.SSID(thisNet)) {
   wifiNetworks[i][0].toCharArray ( ssid,50);
   wifiNetworks[i][1].toCharArray ( password,20);
   wifiNetworks[i][2].toCharArray ( apiKey,20);
   selected=true;
   break;
   }
   }
   }
   if ( selected ) {
   Serial.println ( "\nRecognised Network SSID: " + String ( ssid ) );
   } else {
   Serial.println ( "\nNo recognised network found" );
   }
   return selected;
   }

   1. Missed out

      const int networks=1; // Number of WiFi networks known

      at the start

      And as you can see, my use case involved having the thingspeak API code in the array too.

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