BW16 as a wifi repeater with internet sharing NAT functionality?

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I am trying to create a wifi extender for my home security devices as my current router does not have very good signal outside. so I am thinking to create an AP + STA mode on BW16 to share the internet functionality. I tried to find resources but it’s always a dead end or I am not good at finding stuff. I tried using the Realtek SDK with Cygwin64 Terminal but I can’t make it work so I am using the arduino IDE with the URL and added the bw16 board to it.

Is there anything which can help me out?

I will also, be using esp32 to communicate with bw16 to share the status using the UART (RX, TX) and esp32 will manage 1-3 relays to turn on/off the devices.

I was also going through the internet and found this github repo but it is for esp32 and esp32 does not have 5Ghz network compatiblity… GitHub - dchristl/esp32_nat_router_extended: a simple ESP32 NAT Router with some additional features

But what I love about this repo is, it opens a captive portal and let the user select the existing wifi network as well.

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks <3

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Hi @dumbmw,

We currently do not have a Wi-Fi repeater feature. Although we have a concurrent mode example, but it cannot be used to create a WiFi repeater.

You may raise a feature request on GitHub · Where software is built.

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