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Show HN: Raspberry Pi WiFi password updater (with QR code)

1 pointsby koinsalmost 4 years ago

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koinsalmost 4 years ago
It&#x27;s not perfect, but this was a project of mine that I create a while back to share guest wifi with friends who come over and visit. Long story short, a QR code allows a guest to log into wifi. The QR code and password are changed weekly via a cron job, and the whole thing runs on a Raspberry Pi nano.<p>This setup would only work out-of-the-box on a Ubiquity network as that&#x27;s what I have, but I tried to document the basic steps it would take if an interested party wanted to replicate this on other hardware. I hope you enjoy!<p>Note: I don&#x27;t intend to steal any thunder from the [recent Show HN](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27803146" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=27803146</a>) where a website was created to turn a wifi password to a QR code; I think it&#x27;s a great project! I just never thought anyone would be interested in this until I saw all the comments on it so now I&#x27;d like to share my version :)