Re: home screen icon to connect to wi-fi network

On 9/19/2024 9:52 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

It seems only the Pixel has a widget that will automatically connect to a
known unique BSSID/SSID pair

 
Even a pixel doesn't have a widget *that* specific.

May I ask you for advice, since you seem to understand what is being asked.

If no app exists, that's fine - but the COMMANDS must be happening on the
phone, and therefore that series of commands must be known to somebody.

Do you have any advice as to how to find what those commands are to connect
to a known access point when that access point is hidden.

I would think the sequence of commands is similar to what happens when you
FIRST connected to that hidden access point, where you had to add
credentials, where all the variables are known, such as BSSID & passphrase.

Obviously I've googled, XDA Developers included, but I haven't found it
yet. Given that, do you have any suggestions for finding that information?

Maybe a "sniffer" of sorts that I can run on the phone (maybe wireshark?)
will identify the packets - but that doesn't tell us what the phone did.

What I need is to tie together the commands the phone does to connect to a
known AP such that it's a single tap instead of the normal 3 steps.

From the Android home screen, it's currently 3 steps in the worst case.
 [1] Swipe down to expose the Wi-Fi tile (if Wi-Fi isn't turned on already)
 [2] Longpress the Wi-Fi tile to turn it on (if it's not already turned on)
 [3] Tap on the saved hidden WAP (which is set to not auto-reconnect)

It's still 3 steps even if the Wi-Fi is turned on.
 [1] Swipe down to expose the Wi-Fi tile (even if Wi-Fi is turned on)
 [2] Longpress the Wi-Fi tile to expose a list of saved hidden connections
 [3] Tap on the saved hidden WAP (which is set to not auto-reconnect)

Using the Wi-Fi Shortcut app, you can reduce that to only two steps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pw.wifishortcut
 [1] Tap on Wi-Fi Shortcut to expose a list of saved hidden connections
 [2] Tap on the saved hidden WAP (which is set to not auto-reconnect)

But I'm trying to reduce those two steps to a single step for efficiency.
Any ideas how to do both of those taps in a single tap for each known WAP?