Setting up ESP8266 in soft access point mode

[svanimisetti]

After much struggle, I was able to get the AppleMIDI library example (ESP8266_NoteOnOffEverySec.ino) running on my ESP8266. I notice that when my wi-fi network is congested, I see lot of dropped notes. I wanted to know how I can setup ESP8266 in soft access point mode so that my iPad can connect to the ESP8266 directly. I am assuming that the performance will be better in this case, as there will be less traffic. Any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[svanimisetti]

Answering my own question. I found that simple modification to existing example actually works (found it by trial and error).

1. On line 25, use WiFi.softAP instead of WiFi.begin
2. Comment out lines 27-31
3. On line 34, use WiFi.softAPIP() instead of WiFi.localIP()

With above changes, I am able to connect to ESP8266 over WiFi and recieve a note every second on test application (Synthesia). Tested using rtpMIDI (Tobia Erichsen) on Windows 10 and MIDI Network (Oscar Bouwmans) on iOS 9.x (very old iPad).