How it works

Many people often ask me how I generated the QRCode for my Wireless network, so I decided to write this for them. Nowadays it is quite often that the routers come with the QRcode already baked in or they provide ways of generating the QRcode through their admin webiste. However not everyone is able to easily access to the router admin page or maybe some other websites on the internet are full of ads or are simply too slow. That is why I provide here this minimal functionality with an explanation.

The above QRCode simply encodes a special string that the application that is scanning understands. Let us suppose that your wireless network is called Homer and the password is 123456789, then the QRCode simply encodes the following text

WIFI:S:Homer;T:WPA;P:123456789;;

Therefore, this website is just a helping tool for you to convert this piece of text into an image, that your camera app can then read and maybe it recognises that the text starts with the word WIFI and logs you in automatically.

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