Zero-config WiFi setup for Ambianic Edge device

[ivelin]

Awesome projects like Berrylan (http://www.berrylan.org/) allow edge devices to be easily onboarded to a local Wifi network.

The issue we need to resolve is how to make that possible within the UI.

The wifi onboarding sequence requires Bluetooth pairing which is used as a channel to send the Wifi credentials to the edge device.

PWA currently does not support Bluetooth, although it is a Draft W3C API proposal.

Related to ambianic/ambianic-edge/issues/185

[ivelin]

It looks like Bluetooth support in PWA is gradually becoming available in mainstream browsers:
https://www.hackster.io/patricia2/offline-pwa-with-bluetooth-le-capabilities-77cbba
https://kaspars.net/blog/sensor-pilot-web-bluetooth
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetooth_API

[BKristenssonAlfsson]

Alright. I'll investigate and will do some tries on this.

[ivelin]

UX flow diagram below as designed by @BKristenssonAlfsson :

Diagram source here.

[ivelin]

Recent resources related to Vue, PWA and BLE:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-bluetooth-vuex
• https://medium.com/@urish/start-building-with-web-bluetooth-and-progressive-web-apps-6534835959a6
• https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/web-bluetooth/blob/master/implementation-status.md
• https://dev.to/gerybbg/web-bluetooth-by-example-46dh

[ivelin]

@muka this is the UI side of the Wifi auto-config issue you are working on with @BKristenssonAlfsson
ambianic/ambianic-edge/issues/185

[ivelin]

Balena's Wifi Connect project looks promising.
It is used by popular projects such as Home Bridge and Open Agriculture.

[ivelin]

Done! Closed by ambianic/ambianic-rpi-image#3