It’s finally time to implement it either in the application or preferably also at web.
Currently I have a lot of Sonoff wifi devices that I will soon have to transfer to a different SSID and password… doing it manually by resetting each device and adding it again in the application is absurd not to mention that they disappear along with the scenes whose devices are marked.
The lack of possibility of mass transfer to a new AP is really sad. We need to introduce a mass function in which you can mark all or specific devices and give them new wifi parameters and let them reboot and establish a connection to the new AP.
Unfortunately, most wifi devices do not have such an option even per device, let alone mass immigration.
This has to change, I’m probably not the only one who needs it.
If the app can already contact all the devices, then could we have a “bulk change” where it would send a new SSID and key to all the devices? That is what I would like to see, cause I too sometimes need to change this!
It’s a brilliant idea indeed. And that’s a need we have been researching for a while.
But it’s a complex feature, requiring work from the hardware and firmware sides too. The update routine for these devices may vary and depend on device vendors. As far as I know, some old models do not support OTA due to a small ROM.
I’m mainly talking about original Sonoff products and those that have OTA, even for firmware. If it can be done in the context of firmware, it should also be possible to change network settings.
Obviously, if something is technically impossible, it’s impossible. But it seems to me that most Sonoff devices would be able to have such a function. If I remember correctly, Sonoff Hubs currently have this function per device option. But a whole bunch of other devices don’t have it.
I understand that this may be more of an issue on the Sonoff team and firmware side, but the application and web version are the ewelink team.
Currently, this is a tragic situation. If someone has 100 scenes and 100 devices located in different places and would have to transfer them to a new SSID, the situation becomes absurd. Physically access each device and perform a factory reset to enable pairing, add devices per application and reconfigure/name them and then rebuild all scenes… Transferring the SSID to a new AP is not a solution, which in the case of a password leak simply becomes the work of destroying the entire ecosystem and rebuilding it from scratch.
