WifiEvent Handling

[tkerby]

Description

Is there a way to use the WiFi Event Handling to recover the RSSI and Mac Address of received probe requests?

Specifically I would like to setup an AP using SoftAP and monitor for any probes it receives, logging the time, MAC and RSSI.

I've taken a good look at the WifiEvent example for a client but it doesn't cover how to access the data in the structures associated with the events. In particular I'm looking to read from this data in ESP8266WiFiType.h

+struct WiFiEventSoftAPModeProbeRequestReceived
+{

• int rssi;
• uint8 mac[6];
  +};

Ideallu I'd like to expand this to both run as a dummy AP, but connect to an access point as a client to get the time from NTP and forward Probe requests to an MQTT server

[tkerby]

@igrr I think you may be working on this. Has there been any progress?

[igrr]

No, I'm not working on this issue. I don't know of a way to monitor probe requests in the non-OS SDK in SoftAP mode. So no clue how this can be implemented.

[tkerby]

@igrr Apologies - I saw your comment here: #2100 (comment) and thought you were referring to passing the structures associated with events into the event handler so this data could be read.

I know it's possible in LUA and by using the SDK directly but I'd like to find a way to do this in Arduino

[igrr]

Sorry — I haven't understood your question correctly last time. Opened #2917 which implements the method you need. If you're using the git version of ESP8266 Arduino core, you can give it a go by doing git fetch origin && git checkout feature/wifi_probereq_event.

[tkerby]

That works perfectly! Thanks very much for your help with this @igrr

[devyte]

@igrr I'm a bit confused on this one. I could swear I had the onProbeRequest handler in use in my own app, but I just checked, and I have it commented out, which means I was waiting on something. No idea what now...
This looks merged into master. Is it staged for release? Should this issue be closed, or labeled or something?

[igrr]

Thanks @devyte, indeed this has been implemented and is available in master. Applied the right labels.