Oak MAC address

[pdominique]

Hi,

Is there a way to get an Oak's mac address before even the initial setup? I need to have the mac address added to a whitelist before I can connect the Oak to the wifi network.

I used the following method to get my Photon's mac address, I don't know if there are similar tools for the Oak: https://docs.particle.io/support/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-tools/core/#display-mac-address

Cheers,
Pierre

[PeterF]

Hi Pierre,

I don't see anything in on the web-server end, so there doesn't look to be any convenient way to interrogate the Oak for it's MAC that way.

Best I can suggest is that as part of the setup, the Oak sets up it's own access point which you then connect to in order to start the configuration process. If you connect to it using an android device you use an app like Fing to get the MAC address. You could do the same with a windows or Mac computer if you are able to connect to it that way. I'm sure there would be a similar app for the iPhone.

Pete

[thunderace]

The Oak MacAddress is 5C:CF:7F:XX:XX:XX where XX:XX:XX are exposed by the Wifi AP SSID (ACORN-XXXXXX).

So you can get the macaddress no?

[pdominique]

Hi Pierre,

I don't see anything in on the web-server end, so there doesn't look to be any convenient way to interrogate the Oak for it's MAC that way.

Best I can suggest is that as part of the setup, the Oak sets up it's own access point which you then connect to in order to start the configuration process. If you connect to it using an android device you use an app like Fing to get the MAC address. You could do the same with a windows or Mac computer if you are able to connect to it that way. I'm sure there would be a similar app for the iPhone.

Pete

I had a similar idea, I just didn't know what app I could use for this. Thanks!

The Oak MacAddress is 5C:CF:7F:XX:XX:XX where XX:XX:XX are exposed by the Wifi AP SSID (ACORN-XXXXXX).

So you can get the macaddress no?

Well if that's the case, that's even better. I knew about the AP SSID but I didn't know the first part of the mac address was a fixed value.

[defragster]

Just installed FING on android - very nice results - Scary Good!  All devices on my AP are discovered!

I also have 'NetGear WiFi Analytics' on my phone - it only provides the info on AP's - this would include an OAK as AP - ALL AP's it can see - it also includes Signal Strength and some other handy info.  I used it to find out how far up my driveway I could see my first OAK at what strength.

[PeterF]

Fing is a really handy app - Lets you see what all the different devices are, what IP they're assigned mac address, network hardware manufacter/vendor, what services they provide (FTP/HTTP/SSH/etc), and really handy when monitoring your network over time, as you can assign friendly names and attach notes.

Thanks for that thunderace... didn't even realise thats what the 6 letters after the ACORN- were! Nice!

Pete