Didn't want to go to my router and disconnect it to reset, so I've just cut the power with the breaker, I do really hate that power cable positioning on the router body, so much that the breaker is actually a good 15 feet more to walk, but saved me from having to fiddle around with that barrel connector.

Dude, put a triac in there with an esp8266, turn off the router over WiFi 🙃
… Oh wait.. turning off a WiFi router over WiFi.. I'm such a genius :')

@Condor weren't esp8266' able to create their own wifi? ;)

@JoshBent they are!

@mngr @Condor so it is possible 😏

@JoshBent most certainly, but multiple AP's can become a mess quite fast.. and connecting to multiple AP's from one client isn't possible afaik. So yeah :/

My printer's WiFi adapter for example can become a master (i.e. AP, don't show the SJW's this) but I disabled it because it'd be too much hassle to disassociate from my home AP and associate against the printer's own AP every time I want to print something. Same goes for the AP in the esp8266.

@Condor if I'd have multiple remote slaves (heh) I wouldn't use the esp8266 anyway, but rather something like a NRF24L01 :P

@JoshBent Never heard of that chip yet, thanks for mentioning it! :D

@Condor it's quite handy, just needs a cap to balance the comms :)

https://instructables.com/id/...

@condor nrf has longer range and is more expensive too. Don't get cheap nrf modules, they don't work.

@Nanos hahaha I've been there before too, at some point even properly managing it and having a switchboard just didn't work anymore

Why not reboot it from the configuration page, though?

Thanks for all the info...
Questions:
-How secure is esp8266 as an AP?
-Can I create a network with several esp8266, using one as AP? how would I do this? (Like do some IOT stuff and have one central esp8266 controlling and logging...
-Can I create a separate network from my home wifi and then connect it to my home wifi to extract data from the central AP?

@electrineer I keep forgetting the damn password and am too lazy to unlock my vault.. also I think it might not even have a proper reset, where it just soft-array resets instead of properly rebooting, it's a shitty ISP default router.

@GyroGearloose I'll tag @Condor he could know, I haven't yet bought esp8266' :P

Calling for @Cordor , Mister Condor to the reception!

@GyroGearloose regarding security, the passphrase is stored into the sketch I think (not that that's any different in other AP's).. other than that it's the usual WPA2.

The esp8266 can act as both a base station (AP) or a client, but I don't think that they can be run in both states simultaneously (unlike your average WiFi card, at least on Linux). So a separate network where one is a base station where the others connect to, certainly possible. But I don't think that the base station can simultaneously connect to your central WiFi AP.

For configuration of the esp8266 in either AP or client states, there's excellent tutorials on Instructables, and I think that GreatScott has some video material on them as well. Have a look! 🙂