Cant connect multiple devices to the wifi AP at the same time

[Svahnen]

I want to connect my pc to the wifi AP too so I can install over the network, I do not want to connect the ESP to my router but instead just switch my PC wifi over to the ESP AP while installing.

Whenever I try this I get a message that the IP is already in use and I have to set my address manually to IP 10.1.1.3 subnet 255.255.255.0 and gateway/router to 10.1.1.1.

I am guessing there is no handler for giving out multiple IP addresses at once.

(I also read somewhere that the ESP goes to sleep after a while, as its only needed when initializing the hack, but for my use case this should be disabled, anyone know where to turn this off in the code?)

[Svahnen]

//ESP sleep after x minutes
boolean espSleep = false;
int TIME2SLEEP = 30; // minutes

Found this part on line 76-78, so i guess the sleep part is figured out, now all i need is to figure out how to get some type of DHCP to work for multiple clients

[stooged]

The WiFi.softAP() function should be assigning the ip address range automatically.

There was an update to the softAPConfig in 2.0.4 to allow you to set the start ip in the range.

You could try and change this line and add the start ip

https://github.com/stooged/ESP32-Server-900u/blob/main/ESP32_Server_900u/ESP32_Server_900u.ino#L735

Add something like this

IPAddress DHCP_Start_IP(10, 1, 1, 2);
WiFi.softAPConfig(Server_IP, Server_IP, Subnet_Mask, DHCP_Start_IP);

it might fix the issue.

[Francesco146]

it's quite an old issue, is this still relevant or should be closed?

— i also take this opportunity to thank you for updating the repo so quickly with PSFree