device working but not using the wifi?

[Dloranger]

I have my end device working and I can pair with alexa no problems. During the initial bonding setup process, it asks for a wifi SSID and password, I provide those and all seems well, device is paired and reporting temperatures as intended under alexa devices.

However, when I look at my router, I am not seeing the esp32 device listed, and when I try to do a http request to my OTA server, it seems there is no wifi connection.

Where are the wifi credentials being stored so I can use them to manually bring up with wifi when i need to check for OTA firmware updates?