Test for wrong Wifi password?

Question

Maybe this is a dumb question, but is there a way to test for wrong Wifi password?

I know you can do WL_CONNECT to check if the password works, but is there a command for checking if the password is wrong? Not just by waiting.

Answer 1

The information is available on SDK level. If you include #include "user_interface.h", you can use function wifi_station_get_connect_status(). It returns one of:

STATION_GOT_IP
STATION_NO_AP_FOUND
STATION_CONNECT_FAIL
STATION_WRONG_PASSWORD
STATION_IDLE

The WiFi.status() function uses function wifi_station_get_connect_status(), but returns WL_CONNECT_FAILED for STATION_WRONG_PASSWORD.

Answer 2

one can check for wrong password using the following code snippet

  if (WiFi.status() == WL_CONNECTED)
  {
    Serial.println("Connected successfully");
  }
  else if (WiFi.status() == WL_NO_SSID_AVAIL) 
  {
    Serial.println("Wifi network is not avaliable");
  }
  else
  {
    Serial.println("Password is not correct");
  }

more information can be found on GitHub here: https://github.com/aeonSolutions/aeonlabs-ESP32-C-Base-Firmware-Libraries