WiFiManager with ESP32 - Stop Hard-coding WiFi Credentials!

[@Dronebotworkshop]

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"Our old friend the ESP32" 😂

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[@DigitalLandscape]

I'm working working with the WifiManager for years on my ESP8266 projects, but because of your workshop video, I've learned some stuff again. So thanks a lot for that. Regarding the ESP32, there is a smaller version available, I'm using for my projects. It's the WEMOS D1 mini ESP32. It is small but powerfull. Greetings from the rhine-main-region, germany Alex

[@re.liable]

Just discovered about ESP32 and ESP8266 lately. They're such amazing devices. I don't think I'll be seeing Arduino Nanos again anytime soon lmao

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[@Dronebotworkshop]

And thank YOU, Steve, much appreciated!

[@MiniStockpot]

Your videos are just outstanding - you don't leave anything unexplained and take the normal approach where people assume a certain level of knowledge (and where you do that you're most always link to a video you've already made showing how that bit works!) which can really easily alienate beginners. Your instructions are so clear that I can actually watch your videos on two-and-a-half times speed and still follow them easily - thanks for making such wonderful videos and keep up the good work!! 😃

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[@andrewhollenbach7330]

It's like you're psychic and basing your video ideas off my thoughts. Last week when I was quickly programming an esp32 I thought to myself, "I really shouldn't hardcode this sh*t". Bam, 1 week later you make me a guide.

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Just experienced the psychic moment at 38:00 😅

[@gpTeacher]

This is AMAZING! I've been messing with html embedded in my sketches and trying to grab field data into my sketches for several days. This video demonstrates EVERYTHING I need for my current project. You've saved me weeks of time messing about when all I need it the functionality of the WiFiManager. Thank you so much!

[@rdalemd76]

Hi, I finished coding a ESP-32 One Wire Reader and realized the WiFi credentials were hard coded. This was the exact video I was looking for. Excellent job in explaining the uses of WiFi Manager.

[@janomusic61]

I tried the sample with wifimanager on my project and to my surprise everything works i got the connection to my wifi and now i don't have to wait too long to connect my ESP32 with my project, This is the most educational video i found on the esp32, Keep sending more videos like that i learn a lot drom it Keep the good work Thanks a lot! Even after a year of publishing...

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Hi Bill, I'm a big fan of your videos, not only for the clear, organized, detailed and rich graphic information, but for your generosity in sharing your knowledge.... Big thanks 👍

[@christopherleadholm6677]

Nice addition to your videos! I see you've been churning them out quite frequently, lately. Good work! I have been going back through some of your older videos, the one for the HC-SR501 PIR sensor, specifically, just yesterday! Great stuff! Excellent work in the Workshop!

[@KG4JYS]

I like your ESP32 based videos a lot. I recently did a project where I needed far more performance than Arduino could provide. I tried Seeduino XAIO, Artemis, and esp32. Settled on the ESP32 and I'm going to continue using them for projects in place of Arduino. Thank you!

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Thanks a lot for your detailed videos which cover fundamentals all the way to advanced concepts for each topic. I am in awe of the efforts you put in for such high quality content! You are the BEST in this training space!

[@Dronebotworkshop]

That's very nice of you to say Sajan, glad you enjoy my content!

[@ed.puckett]

Thank you for another inspiring video! I wanted to mention that Arduino IDE versions before 1.8.19 have the log4j vulnerability.

[@MakerFabio]

You are really good. You touched all the possible points needed when provisioning Wi-Fi and parameters instead of hardcoding. Many thanks, will use this on my IOT chicken coop!

[@ThumpinV]

Thanks! Love your videos. Very much appreciate the work that you put into these videos. They are FANTASTIC! I love that you take the time to explain the “why” details.

[@Dronebotworkshop]

Thank you so much, that is very kind of you!

[@dennisjohnson1893]

I'm always a day late and a dollar short. Where was this video last week when I was building my WIFI status monitor out in my garage. Well, at least I know how to solve a few problems that I had. Thanks for the great video!

[@deitager8400]

Many thanks for the basics. It very helps in many projects. Especially for the step from arduino to ESP with all the possibilities of WLAN, BT and all the others. The presentation and the kind of explaining the topics is very clear , not too fast and very understandable. In many other YT-Videos you lost time with unnecessary doings like showing the wiring (one wire after anaother) of a circuit and missing absolutly important background knowledge. Keep it forward.

[@EvileDik]

Amazing work, as usual Bill!

[@drdave611]

The timeliness of this information could not be better! I've been developing sensor uses (VOC, CO2, particulates, T, P, %RH, etc.) using the 8266 for a couple of years. I'm ready to begin deploying to other locations with other WiFi networks and have been struggling with how to find a way to do this. I knew it must exist, but was not aware of WiFiManager. This video makes it seem very feasible now... THANKS!!

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[@whitneydesignlabs8738]

Another great video, Bill. Thanks. I had my ESP on my network in no time. I think using this library will be kind of a game changer to make the ESP much more useful in network applications. Might have to incorporate it into my 6wd robot with a small LCD display to report the same info the sample sketches show on the serial port.

[@dannydheaton2765]

Thank you for making this. I'm trying to learn code and there's a lot of choices in tutorials, but not many in native clearly spoken English. Your shop is an American Dream it looks to be. Most of the video was exactly what I needed so I'll be back for more. Where I got lost and your explanations sped up was when it came to the JSON and SPIFFS file and config setup and saving. However, I learned much of what I needed for a basic temp sensor I'm building several of. I've used the WifiManager when I got into all of this building many WLED controllers, but it was all prebuilt and finally I hit the button in my life where it was time to get down to understaniding and compiling my own code for projects I build for work and for fun. I'm going to see what else you have to offer on here and wondered if you use any other platforms to..... well basically show off your skills with a almost complete workshop like yours. Thanks again and hope to read a reply soon as this video is 1.5 years old now. So....What's new?

[@masoudjafarzadeh]

hello I searched a lot for this tutorial Your teaching was excellent and in simple language I wish you the best

[@anonymous.youtuber]

Very concise, very well explained, thank you so much for sharing 🙏🏻

[@paulmillard1130]

Marvellous full of clarity like all your videos. Helps me greatly as I'm getting on a bit and it helps remind me how to do this stuff. you're a real star ThankYou.

[@sunpeter8260]

Thank you so much, Bill! The tutorial is concise and clear, you are a wonderful teacher! This is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you again!

[@ToniCorvera]

Excellent rundown, you covered all the basics (and a bit more) so that I can get going 😊 Was hoping to learn some about the OTA update feature but I guess that would have made the video too long.

[@breebw]

With the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W's being next to impossible to get for a project I am doing, these modules could meet my need. A wireless module on a board like this. Incredible.

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[@BinuMadhav.NetWork]

Great Article, well narated! Full of small tips which others hide! Hats off you Sir!!

[@edpenn9355]

Great video! I was having a hard time understanding how it works, but I get it now. Thanks for the detailed explanation. A real quality tutorial. I'm going to have to go back and check out your other stuff. Thank you so much.

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[@wishicouldarduino8880]

I'm glad you're here 😁👍I glossed right over this. awesome video!

[@charlykappel0103]

I am desperate integrating the code for the switch to reset the credentials into the webcam code. An explanation similar to your example with WiFi manager would be great. This works great

[@muhammadbilal2000]

Well explained Bill, thanks. Make a video on Arduino MKR WiFi 1010, too. That is a bit challenging.

[@TypicalRiderPH]

This is one of the best tutorial videos I have ever watched.

[@MrBubba256]

Well done and timely for some projects I've started. Thanks!

[@_dinesh]

Phenomenal video!!! Incredibly clear explanation for ESP32's. Thank you sooooo much!

[@drmosfet]

Thanks for this useful info 👍 This setup approach make sense as people have been asked to program there router for over a decade now.

[@ykm_online]

Excellent video. One additional info .WROOM-32 version supports only 1 band 2.4Ghz in wifi ( which is good for many routers ). For dual band support the newer chip C5 version supports wifi over both 2.4 and 5GHz band. ( as read by me )

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[@HarishPillay]

Thanks for highlighting WifiManager. That was something that I've been looking for!

[@henrybecker2842]

This is an excellent tutorial. I learned a lot. Thank you very much.

[@ytdemori]

Very clear explanation! May ask you which is the software that you use to draw so awesome and clear schematics?

[@rarenu]

I always like your videos, because you speak slowly and explain clearly. I request you to publish a sketch to add MQTT server, user name and password using WiFi Manager please.

[@noweare1]

MQTT Server can not run on esp32, esp-idf has mqtt client library, arduino has client library also

[@rarenu]

@@noweare1 I mean a MQTT client only that needs to have a Server ID/ IP address, username and password etc.,

[@teenflon]

Literally just answered a question I posted on your other video :) excellent material

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Exceptional video and presentation - best online video by a wide margin. Very useful information prepared with great care. Thanks. Keep it up. Truly remarkable!

[@LiviuGelea]

Personally, I chose to configure my esp8266 connection parameters using serial commands and write them to internal eeprom. Not end-user friendly, but much more convenient for me

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Your videos are as neat as your workbench. Well done 👌

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THANK YOU SO MUCH! Your tutorials are always in depth, on point and accurate! THANK YOU!

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As usual, such a great video. Thank you. I will sign up for the newsletter as we as buy some swag. Thank you, again.

[@qdzung86]

This is the best instruction for wifimanager.

[@superdau]

That's a lot easier than I thought. Would have saved my quite some time, if I had just looked it up before I wrote my own UART based config "editor". Well the ESP has to talk to an AVR over UART as well (using other parts of my "command line"), so what I wrote isn't completely useless, but still...

[@anithasshenoy6662]

Your content is very helpful. But many of us face lot of issues when using these devices. Pls take some time to respond to solve these issues too.

[@Leroys_Stuff]

Thank you Bill as always informative video

[@grassrootfilms]

Unless they fixed it, make sure to set the connection timeout property in the library because by default it's 0 seconds. Yes, 0. So if it doesn't connect immediately to your network, it just goes right back to the manager and can be a real pain if this is module is installed in a hard to get to location. I usually set it to 30 seconds and that seems to work every time.

[@michaegi4717]

I use the WifiManager for some years now. I really like it. But as far as I know the password is not encrypted on the flash memory, so you should be aware if you mount this for example outside.

[@miguelraulgonzalez7744]

This is pure gold! Thank you!!

[@vinaymama]

Thank you sir. It was explained in a simple and clear manner. Lot of my doubts are cleared now

[@salesmart_b2b]

I love the way you explain things, thanks a lot sir.

[@altitude1039]

Thank you so much! I was looking for something like this, and didn't know how to do it. Be sure to use an eight digit password if you decide to customize the sketch or it won't work.

[@marksnyder1296]

Good stuff! Thanks Bill! I can't wait to try this!

[@mrcivster]

Thank you so much for the very detailed video of WiFiManager. Please make a video of sketch update using wifi.

[@MrSidMan]

Dang. Where were you in 2015? Haha 😄 thanks for the awesomeness 👌 👏 👍

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So helpful! Thanks, Bill! 👍👍👍

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One of your best videos! Thank you so much!

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Man that was awesome love it nice 👍

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perfect, exactly what I was looking for !

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Just what I was looking for, thanks!

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Thank you for clearly explaining things. I love your videos.

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Wow, that was an excellent tutorial Thanks for the tutorial!

[@Dronebotworkshop]

Thank you, much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial.

[@timarcher52]

This was a great video, helped me with exactly what I needed. Thank you!

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One of your more fantastic videos, thank you.

[@nalinux]

I didn't know this exist. Thanks, this will be really useful.

[@MenezesDailton]

Hello from Brazil... Great contribution... Thanks a lot...

[@gustavopoa]

Nice!! Perfect explanation! Thanks for that.

[@SamirMishra6174]

You are Guru Dev 🙏

[@DesignBuildFixReview]

great info thanks for being so on point.

[@reainnovationstanzania5163]

i saw hakuna matata on of the wifi a swahili word from East Africa, proud to see that 😁

[@ArneSkov]

The weak point for distributing ESP32 / ESP8266 solutions is the need of reading the serial connection. We include an ip for our network connected SMS Gateway and in the config screen we have a field for phone number. When connected the first time we use the internet for sending an SMS to the owners own phone containing the local ip, he should connect to. We've coded the SMS gateway for Android and the ESP-owner could install this on his own (android-)phone and not even have to have contact to our SMS Gateway. In this way no computer and no Arduino IDE is needed - only a powerbank or a power supply.

[@brainimplants]

If I understand you correctly why not set up a dynamic dns entry based on the ap name or mix in chip id. could let the user specify a name in the connection setup. i do this to name my iot devices

[@jean-paulzimmermann6366]

Thanks a lot, this is very helpful and very well explained!

[@robertobrenes5283]

Great video as always! Muchas gracias!

[@piotrcurious1131]

try using ir library to get wifi ssid/password over infrared. this is much more lightweight and secure (requires line of sight communication)

[@BlackShadow_86]

cool libraries! Thank you for the work!

[@thespencerowen]

Wow, what a well done video. This saves me days of research

[@jamescullins2709]

That is awesome! When will you have the mic working? excellent doorbell cam.

[@felipecoral4537]

this is a good video, the explication and the methodology are simple for understand, thanks

[@walthermatthau9537]

Excellent explanations!

[@SrikantLive]

What a brilliant explanation. Kudos

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Thank so much for your sharing!

[@lionahmmed9866]

Thank you so much for the great lesson.

[@curtkeisler7623]

Exactly what I was looking for.