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Nathan Phillips
Nathan Phillips

Reputation: 12455

How to host an ad hoc 802.11 network from Windows 10 IoT

I want to allow my IoT device to receive a connection from a remote client without the device being connected to a wired network or a Wi-Fi access point. Bluetooth would be an obvious choice, but my clients might not have Bluetooth.

I thought WiFi Direct might be what I wanted but I see in the release notes for Windows 10 IoT Core build 10586 that

WiFi Direct limitations on IoTCore

1.The IoTCore device has to be the connecting device – it will not work as the advertising device with another device initiating the connection.

This implies that API's like WiFiDirectServiceAdvertiser are out and leaves me wondering what other options there are. If I want to do Wi-Fi it seems that I'll have to try to set up a non-WiFi Direct ad hoc Wi-Fi network. I can't find a .Net UWP API to do this (WiFiAdapter seems to only facilitate connecting to networks that can be scanned for). Is there a way of achieving what I want, perhaps using a non-.Net API that is available on Windows 10 IoT Core?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 850

Answers (1)

dbruning
dbruning

Reputation: 5134

I'm a noob at Windows 10 IoT, but I have the same need.

I did notice that there's a way to onboard a device using the IoT dashboard, which seems to connect your computer to the device via wifi in order to then join the device to a network. So possibly there are some API's that can do a similar thing?

Upvotes: 1

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