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You don’t give your WiFi password to everyone that visits?
Not OP, but I've a guest network.
Guest network with no password is the way, some firmware allow you to turn the reset button into this function's switch.
Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
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#22Is it only Android 10 that can do this with scanning a qr code, or also v9?
Android 9: Camera search icon on Google assistant (long press "home" and cancel voice command) offers "join network" option for this kind of QR code
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#23Why would I want to make it EASIER for people coming over to use my WiFi?
You don’t give your WiFi password to everyone that visits?
I think the OP is making a joke about the fact that some guests who get the wifi password, may spend all their time looking at their phones instead of socializing. That happens nowadays when one throws a party or movie night.
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#24There is a Merge Request to support QR code for hotspot created in GNOME control center: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/merge_re... Hopefully, shall be available in next release
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#25Is it only Android 10 that can do this with scanning a qr code, or also v9?
This has been a thing for longer than I can remember. Many many years, it should only depend on what your QR scanner are capable of (and that will vary since most use their default camera app for scanning QR codes and most manufacturers ship their own - but by now I hope even older phones have it).
Android 10 made som more specific features for this, such as automatically generating the QR code for others and scanning QR directly from the wifi settings.
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#26Plasma (KDE) now has a button in its network widget that does just that - show the QR code for this wifi network.
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#27Is it only Android 10 that can do this with scanning a qr code, or also v9?
It works on Android Pie with the Binary Eye code scanner app.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.markusfisch.android.binar...
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#28I used this when setting up mesh WiFi for my parents, a few years ago. I set up a guest network and a main network; the guest network had a fairly-long password, and the main network had a very-long password, both WPA2-Personal. I put together a two-page PDF, page size about 4 inches by 6 inches. One side had the info for the main network; the other side had the info for the guest network. "the info" included the SSI…
That's such a better solution for guests too, I've visited many friends where I had to crawl under their desk to see the SSID and password printed on the back of the router... because they haven't changed the factory settings.
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#30Very neat! However, IMHO 63 characters is a bit much for the password. ”If you use lower-case, upper-case, and digits, and if you generate it truly randomly, then a 16-character password has 95 bits of entropy. That is more than sufficient.” Source: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15653/recommend...
A friend has a ~32 character camel case phrase as his WiFi password.. just a nightmare for people to type on their phones. iOS’s “share pass with contact” helps but every once in awhile someone has to spend 10 minutes trying to get a password to work. So silly.