[TW#15359] Support for WiFi 802.11 Ad Hoc mode (IDFGH-2143)

[nickzoic]

Is it possible to add support for WiFi 802.11 Ad Hoc mode to the ESP32 WiFi Stack Libraries?

[honza-klu]

Ad Hoc mode would be extremely useful for p2p comunication and mesh networks.

[jack0c]

Sorry, @nickzoic Ad Hoc will not be in our TODO list. @honza-klu P2P(Wi-Fi DIRECT) is in our TODO list. And , we will release ESP-Mesh in idf3.1.

[nickzoic]

No worries. I've been experimenting a bit with ESP-Now and that's looking good for my application.
I'm looking forward to trying ESP-Mesh!

Closing this ...

[wgaylord]

Will Ad-Hoc ever be on the ToDo list? Really want to use my ESPs with existing mesh networks that follow the 802.11 ad-hoc standard for making mesh networks.

[AndroidBaaaby]

Hi @wgaylord . Ad Hoc is not in our TODO list. Sorry for that.

[wgaylord]

Is there a specific reason why? Or just other priorities?

[preechaim]

As far as I know, the Ad-Hoc (IBSS) mode is basic functionality in the WiFi stack.
It should not be difficult to expose this function to the framework.
So please reconsider.

[AndroidBaaaby]

Hi @honza-klu @preechaim, thank you for your suggestion. For now we are doing other tasks. If there are any news about this, we would let you know.

[wgaylord]

Is 802,11 Ad Hoc going to be looked at or is it not being looked at as it would compete with ESP-Mesh? Just looking for an answer. I would attempt to implement Ad Hoc somehow but the WiFi stack is closed source in a binary only so I would have to use sending and reception of raw packets.