ESP32 as hotspot?

It looks like the ESP32 has a hotspot or ā€œsoftapā€ mode which sets itself as an access point for other devices to connect to it. That by itself wouldnā€™t be as useful, but with a 4G connection things start to make sense. Iā€™m not sure how the routing to the internet via 4G will work with softap mode. Iā€™m still waiting on my Ringo so I canā€™t do much yet.

Feature Request: 4G hotspot functionality with SSID and passphrase option.

Although weā€™ve been warned against doing so, if stable enough, my idea is to use this as a minimalist phone, but some remote laptop work using itā€™s hotspot would be nice.

4 Likes

Thank you for supporting our work and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

This might be possible, but Iā€™ve never tried it. Unfortunately, I donā€™t think weā€™ll ever implement a functionality like this one since our main priority is education, but Iā€™d really love to see someone from the community do it.

3 Likes