Percept DK : Wi-Fi connectivity not working if SSID is hidden

Kumar, Priya 26

The Wi-Fi connectivity of our Percept DK device is successful only when the SSID is not hidden in the network. Has anyone tried to hide the SSID and connect successfully? If so, can you please let me know if you had to upgrade any of the runtime modules to make it work? Our device is brand new and we did update the firmware/OS to the latest version using the USB-C method but this problem remains.

AshokPeddakotla-MSFT 35,761 Reputation points

2022-03-23T10:28:50.287+00:00

@Kumar, Priya Is there a specific reason you would like to hide the SSID and connect to the Azure Percept DK?
This is how the device is connected to wifi : Connect your dev kit to a Wi-Fi network But let me check if there is a way to connect by hiding the SSID.
Kumar, Priya 26 Reputation points

2022-03-23T13:42:17.343+00:00

Our network team is strongly recommending that the SSID of the Wi-Fi network used by IoT devices should be hidden for security purposes. During the Percept device configuration, on the Network Connection screen, we found an option to add a hidden network, but it just does not connect. If you can please look into this and let me know your recommendation it would be great.
AshokPeddakotla-MSFT 35,761 Reputation points

2022-03-28T04:34:16.593+00:00

@Kumar, Priya Wanted to follow up with you to understand whether the below information helped. Please let us know if there are any other queries.
If below suggestions answers your query, do click Accept Answer and Up-Vote for the same. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Kumar, Priya 26 Reputation points

2022-03-28T20:46:29.157+00:00

Hello,
We tried the below suggestion but not having any luck so far. There were 2 files in the /etc/wpa_supplicant folder: wpa_supplicant.conf and wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf. Tried to add the below lines to the files 1 at a time but in both cases the hidden SSID did not work. Are we missing any steps?

network={
ssid="*******"
scan_ssid=1
psk="********"
priority=1
}
Kumar, Priya 26 Reputation points

2022-03-28T21:03:30.14+00:00

Hello,
We tried the below suggestion but not having any luck so far. There were 2 files in the /etc/wpa_supplicant folder: wpa_supplicant.conf and wpa_supplicant-wlan0.conf. Tried to add the below lines to the files 1 at a time but in both cases the hidden SSID did not work. Are we missing any steps?

network={
ssid="hiddenssid"
scan_ssid=1
psk="networkkey"
priority=1
}
AshokPeddakotla-MSFT 35,761 Reputation points

2022-03-29T17:33:31.35+00:00

@Kumar, Priya As mentioned, using OOBE to connect to hidden Wi-Fi networks is not supported. How ever, the work around provided is not tested against the Azure Percept device.
For further troubleshooting and deeper investigation on this issue, please file a support request @ https://aka.ms/azsupt? If you do not have access to a support plan do let us know.

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Quinn Tran 191 Reputation points

2022-03-23T23:53:29.143+00:00

Hello @Kumar, Priya ,
The feature of using OOBE to connect to hidden Wi-Fi networks is not supported. However, the device itself supports this if the wpa_supplicant config file is manually configured via SSH. If you do a quick web search for "configure wpa supplicant hidden ssid”, you will some results to help move the project forward. For example: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103701/configure-wpa-supplicant-conf-to-hidden-ssid-using-wpa2-peap-ms-chapv2

Hope this helps!

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