WLAN.connect with bssid?

[Taki7o7]

Hey there, i want to prevent connecting to a network with the same name, so i'd like to use the bssid parameter, but it won't really let me

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def do_connect():
    import network
    sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
    if not sta_if.isconnected():
        print('connecting to network...')
        sta_if.active(True)
        sta_if.connect(ssid='myssid', password='mypass', bssid='5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c')
        while not sta_if.isconnected():
            pass
    print('network config:', sta_if.ifconfig())
    
do_connect()

It throws TypeError: extra keyword arguments given

what am I doing wrong?

[Taki7o7]

Hmm, seems thats not supported at all (anymore?!) Also, no WPS? Isn't just the SSID a really bad identifier to use?

[jimmo]

Hmm, seems thats not supported at all (anymore?!) Also, no WPS? Isn't just the SSID a really bad identifier to use?

I'm fairly sure that the bssid is supported on ESP32, PYBD, and RP2 PicoW. Which port are you using?

WPS is not supported.

[Taki7o7]

Hmm, seems thats not supported at all (anymore?!) Also, no WPS? Isn't just the SSID a really bad identifier to use?

I'm fairly sure that the bssid is supported on ESP32, PYBD, and RP2 PicoW. Which port are you using?

WPS is not supported.

well, ESP32 generic

[karfas]

Hey there, i want to prevent connecting to a network with the same name, so i'd like to use the bssid parameter, but it won't really let me

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        sta_if.connect(ssid='myssid', password='mypass', bssid='5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c')

It throws TypeError: extra keyword arguments given

Router name and password are positional parameters.
The only keyword argument allowed is bssid - you get the extra keyword exception for ssid= and/or password=.

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        sta_if.connect('myssid', 'mypass', bssid='5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c')

Can also be found by reading the station example in the fine manual at https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/ ... ckref.html

[Taki7o7]

Hey there, i want to prevent connecting to a network with the same name, so i'd like to use the bssid parameter, but it won't really let me

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        sta_if.connect(ssid='myssid', password='mypass', bssid='5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c')

It throws TypeError: extra keyword arguments given

Router name and password are positional parameters.
The only keyword argument allowed is bssid - you get the extra keyword exception for ssid= and/or password=.

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        sta_if.connect('myssid', 'mypass', bssid='5c:5c:5c:5c:5c:5c')

Can also be found by reading the station example in the fine manual at https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/ ... ckref.html

oh damn, thank you so much. Also i passed the bssid in wrong format ^^

Greetings from vienna to vienna

[Jibun no kage]

We sure it is supported for Pico, i.e. rp2? explicit use of bssid? I can't seem to get it to work. If I pass a MAC style string as bssid, I value error. If I convert the bssid to a unhexify bytes array removing the colons, I don't get any error but the connection never happens, just an endless loop where isconnected is always false.

I know the ssid and passphrase are right, they work when I let the connection attempt find the router without the explicit bssid connection attempt.

As least under Pico or rp2, the ssid and passphrase appear to be required otherwise you get a type error if the ssid is missing, and you get EPERM error if the passphrase is missing.