Funhouse Wippersnapper wifi connection

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Funhouse Wippersnapper wifi connection

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I have two funhouse boards and they both work well connecting to IO from my house. I asked for a guest wifi username and password so I could connect my funhouse at work. It says it is connecting to Wifi but gives me an IO connection error. I know IO isn't the problem because it works fine when I change to my home wifi. The work connection seems to require another step using a browser to activate the wifi connection. How can I accomodate that using the "secrets" file? Is there another way?

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Re: Funhouse Wippersnapper wifi connection

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The guest login at work that requires an extra click to 'agree / login' step is known as a Captive Portal. These not compatible with Funhouse WiFi options.

The are plenty of work around, but probably a bad idea for a work environment as you compromise network security.

1) bypass the work captive portal (probably not a good idea at work / school) to do this.
* whitelist funhouse macs
* bridge your own AP

2) Use your phone AP

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Re: Funhouse Wippersnapper wifi connection

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mikeysklar thank you. Do you think my IT people can turn it off if I ask them to? Just for this single device.

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Asking the IT folks to "whitelist" a funhouse mac address would be the best approach to start with.

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Perfect. I will try that route. Great advice, thank you.

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Re: Funhouse Wippersnapper wifi connection

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When you plug in your FunHouse to your computer, navigate to the WIPPER drive and open boot.txt. The MAC address should be in that file.

Let me know if you are having any issues.

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So, IT is really making this a long drawn out process. They can see that I am connecting to their wifi and they say I am getting an IP address but the esp32 is trying to connect to the wrong ports. They wanted me to find out which ports are the correct ports. Any ideas? I think they are trying to get me to give up frankly.

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CFairbanks101 wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:29 am So, IT is really making this a long drawn out process. They can see that I am connecting to their wifi and they say I am getting an IP address but the esp32 is trying to connect to the wrong ports. They wanted me to find out which ports are the correct ports. Any ideas? I think they are trying to get me to give up frankly.
If it's an ESP32, it's trying to connect to the secure MQTT port - 8883. You can also ask them to unblock port 1883.

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