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feat(wifi): advertise the setup AP as a captive portal over DHCP - #76

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When a phone joins the setup AP (TinyEngineer-XXXX), it now opens the setup wizard by itself.

  • Before this change, DNS already answered every name with the AP IP, and unknown GET requests already got a redirect to /config. The DHCP server did not send the captive-portal URL (option 114, RFC 8910), so some phones did not show the sign-in prompt.
  • WiFi.AP.enableDhcpCaptivePortal() now sets that option.
  • The two code paths that start the AP now share one function, openSetupAp(). One starts the AP at boot. The other starts it while the Wi-Fi credentials are tested.
  • docs/api.md now says that the setup AP is a captive portal.

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  • Title is type(scope): summary
  • Breaking HTTP / pins / NVS / servo defaults / hook CLI: none
  • Firmware: pio run, pio test -e native
  • HTTP: no route changes
  • Hardware tested
  • No .env, tokens, or Wi-Fi passwords in logs or screenshots

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  • New Features
    • Setup access points now advertise the captive-portal option through DHCP.
    • Credential testing starts the access point in combined access-point and station mode; if testing fails, the provisioning access point is restored.
  • Documentation
    • Updated setup guidance to describe captive-portal behavior, including the portal URL and DNS resolution.

The setup AP already answered every DNS name with its own IP and
redirected unknown pages to /config. It did not send DHCP option 114
(RFC 8910), so some phones did not show the sign-in prompt. Both AP
start paths now go through one function that sets the option.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The setup AP now uses a shared helper to configure Wi-Fi mode, start the AP, and enable the DHCP captive-portal option. Provisioning and credential testing call the helper with different modes. The API documentation describes the captive-portal behavior.

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Setup AP captive portal

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure and document setup AP behavior
src/network/wifi_connect.cpp, docs/api.md
openSetupAp configures and starts the AP, then enables the DHCP captive-portal option. Provisioning and credential testing call it with WIFI_AP and WIFI_AP_STA. The API documentation describes the portal URL and DNS behavior.

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src/network/wifi_connect.cpp (1)

109-111: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the pioarduino platform release.

platformio.ini uses the stable URL without a specific platform or framework version. A later release may change the resolved core and no longer provide WiFi.AP.enableDhcpCaptivePortal(), causing a build failure without a source change. Pin a release that provides this API.

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Review comment at @src/network/wifi_connect.cpp around lines 109 - 111:
Pin the pioarduino platform to a specific release in the PlatformIO
configuration that provides WiFi.AP.enableDhcpCaptivePortal(), rather than
resolving the unpinned stable URL. Leave the API call in the WiFi connection
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- Around line 109-111: Pin the pioarduino platform to a specific release in the
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than resolving the unpinned stable URL. Leave the API call in the WiFi
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Thanks for this! Making the setup wizard easier to open is a useful improvement with very little added complexity, and it fits the goal of simplifying the initial setup.

The checks are green, and I appreciate you testing it on hardware. Happy to merge this independently of #75.

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jamro merged commit 80949ac into jamro:main Oct 11, 2026
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