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The Oak by Digistump => Oak Support => Topic started by: brohan on July 03, 2016, 05:01:44 pm

Title: Directly connect 2 Oaks to each other
Post by: brohan on July 03, 2016, 05:01:44 pm

Is it possible to connect 2 oaks to each other directly? Is there already a write up on this? If so approx what distance do the oaks have? 

 I would think that means neither one would then also connect to a wifi point unless with some kind of additional wifi shield correct?

I'm interested in using 2 oaks, one to monitor something with connected sensors, and send info to another oak, without having to go through the "cloud", or even a local server.

Title: Re: Directly connect 2 Oaks to each other
Post by: PeterF on July 04, 2016, 12:58:16 am

Basically yes. You would set one as a access point, and the other as a client. You can probably make it change from being a access point to a client in your code - haven't tried that yet. However, you should be able to make it connect to different access points if you need to - I'm sure I've seen some code on the forum where someone else wanted to do that.

EDIT: Yes, I had seen that... in this thread (http://digistump.com/board/index.php/topic,2254.msg10538.html#msg10538) kcbudd got it to change which access point the Oak was connected to on demand.