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I trusted using curl to find out it just returns a HTTP 404 page :)
Doesn't look like a 404 to me
Hehe, nice trick!
Guest WiFi using a QR code
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Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
#162This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this: Visitor: What's your wifi password? Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you! Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app? Me: Nope, just point your camera at it. Visitor: Like .. .take a picture…
"ShinyTortoise78, no spaces, capitalization on the first letter of each word. Seventy Eight is the numbers 7 then 8, not spelt out as a word" "Uhh English is my 3rd language and I don't know how to spell tortus. is there a QR code I can scan?"
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Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
#163This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this: Visitor: What's your wifi password? Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you! Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app? Me: Nope, just point your camera at it. Visitor: Like .. .take a picture…
If you’re both using Apple devices it works like this:
Guest: “What’s your wifi network?”
Me: “It’s XXXX”
Guest: selects network
Me: Prompt on my device “Would you like to share your wifi password with Guest” . Selects Yes
Guest: “oh wow I’m connected. Thanks!”
Now that only works if I am present. But it works wonderfully. It should be standardised across platforms.
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
#164This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this: Visitor: What's your wifi password? Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you! Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app? Me: Nope, just point your camera at it. Visitor: Like .. .take a picture…
If you're not tech savvy enough to scan a QR code, do you really NEED to be on my home wifi?
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
#165This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this: Visitor: What's your wifi password? Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you! Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app? Me: Nope, just point your camera at it. Visitor: Like .. .take a picture…
"ShinyTortoise78, no spaces, capitalization on the first letter of each word. Seventy Eight is the numbers 7 then 8, not spelt out as a word" "Uhh English is my 3rd language and I don't know how to spell tortus. is there a QR code I can scan?"
My solution to this is that "password" is the literal password of my guest WiFi.
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
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It might be only my bubble (of non-tech-savvy people), but recently I started to use QR code to share my WiFi and there was never such friction you described. I don't do it with a printed out image, but my phone has an option to share the WiFi via QR code. Also, modern phones have a direct button from the WiFi connection screen to directly scan a QR and connect to WiFi... This is a thing... and it's easier to use it…
> Also, modern phones have a direct button from the WiFi connection screen to directly scan a QR and connect to WiFi I recently did this with a few (some more tech-savvy, some less tech-savvy) people and it seemed to blow their mind. I don't know if this is a commonly known feature.
My phone has this feature and now I know about it! :) Never would have noticed the little icon on the wifi settings page without knowing to look for it.
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
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I agree with scenario one but also think you went too simplistic on the second scenario. Even with a simple wifi password like you suggested, you still need to specify the uppercase letters and plenty of people might have trouble spelling tortoise correctly on the first try. Nevermind the fact that my friends group tends to be about 50% passwords of the type you used and the other 50% of them use a randomly generated…
> Teach a man to fish. I keep teaching my family members to fish, and they keep asking me for fish.
And a boat. And a little island, with a cabin.
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
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The optimal solution is thus: "What's your wifi password?" "It's written right there on the fridge"
"oh, I have to get up from my table, carry my laptop over to your fridge and attempt to type in the password without dropping anything?" (I have a horrible short term memory and struggle with short phrases)
You don’t talk like this when you are invited somewhere? You do ?
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
#169This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this: Visitor: What's your wifi password? Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you! Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app? Me: Nope, just point your camera at it. Visitor: Like .. .take a picture…
Vistor: Ok, I took a picture of it. Now what? Do I send it to you? Me: Is it doing anything? What did you do? Vistor: No. I pointed my phone at it like you said. Then I took a picture. Me: What app are you using? Visitor: The photo app I always use. Me: Can you be more specific? Visitor (showing where the icon is): That one. I always use it. Me: That one sucks. Do you have any others? Visitor: I don't know. There's p…
Has this really happened to you? I got the WiFi QR printed and hanged in my living room, and to this day nobody has ever had a problem. QR might seem too techie, but they are so pervasive that everyone knows how to use them.
Re: Guest WiFi using a QR code
#170This is super cool and would be awesome for situations where your guests are familiar with QR codes. But from my experience the process would go something like this: Visitor: What's your wifi password? Me: No password needed! We have a cool QR code you can scan that will auto-join you! Visitor: Oh cool, how do I use a QR code? Do I need an app? Me: Nope, just point your camera at it. Visitor: Like .. .take a picture…
Had very similar experiences. Setup QR readers for a convention where users could scan for our website and a text bot... Absolute disaster, on both accounts.