ESP32 event based reconnect to wifi on connection lost/disconnect? - wifi

Question

Connectivity handling is a major part of firmware development in ESP32 and I've found event based reconnect to work well. Here is the code that you find very commonly everywhere, but it doesn't directly work -
#include <WiFi.h>
const char* ssid = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SSID";
const char* password = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_PASSWORD";
void WiFiStationConnected(WiFiEvent_t event, WiFiEventInfo_t info){
Serial.println("Connected to AP successfully!");
}
void WiFiGotIP(WiFiEvent_t event, WiFiEventInfo_t info){
Serial.println("WiFi connected");
Serial.println("IP address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
}
void WiFiStationDisconnected(WiFiEvent_t event, WiFiEventInfo_t info){
Serial.println("Disconnected from WiFi access point");
Serial.print("WiFi lost connection. Reason: ");
Serial.println("Trying to Reconnect");
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
}
void setup(){
Serial.begin(115200);
// delete old config
WiFi.disconnect(true);
delay(1000);
WiFi.onEvent(WiFiStationConnected, SYSTEM_EVENT_STA_CONNECTED);
WiFi.onEvent(WiFiGotIP, SYSTEM_EVENT_STA_GOT_IP);
WiFi.onEvent(WiFiStationDisconnected, SYSTEM_EVENT_STA_DISCONNECTED);
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
Serial.println();
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Wait for WiFi... ");
}
void loop(){
delay(1000);
}

Answer 1

It doesn't directly work because you are using the Arduino framework. The event constants are for ESP-IDF if I am not wrong.
We need to use the following constants which are specific for Arduino:
ARDUINO_EVENT_WIFI_STA_CONNECTED: ESP32 station connected to AP
ARDUINO_EVENT_WIFI_STA_GOT_IP: ESP32 station got IP from connected AP
ARDUINO_EVENT_WIFI_STA_DISCONNECTED: ESP32 station disconnected from AP
So the correct working code would be:
#include <WiFi.h>
const char* ssid = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_SSID";
const char* password = "REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_PASSWORD";
void WiFiStationConnected(WiFiEvent_t event, WiFiEventInfo_t info){
Serial.println("Connected to AP successfully!");
}
void WiFiGotIP(WiFiEvent_t event, WiFiEventInfo_t info){
Serial.println("WiFi connected");
Serial.println("IP address: ");
Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
}
void WiFiStationDisconnected(WiFiEvent_t event, WiFiEventInfo_t info){
Serial.println("Disconnected from WiFi access point");
Serial.print("WiFi lost connection. Reason: ");
Serial.println("Trying to Reconnect");
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
}
void setup(){
Serial.begin(115200);
// delete old config
WiFi.disconnect(true);
delay(1000);
WiFi.onEvent(WiFiStationConnected,ARDUINO_EVENT_WIFI_STA_CONNECTED);
WiFi.onEvent(WiFiGotIP, ARDUINO_EVENT_WIFI_STA_GOT_IP);
WiFi.onEvent(WiFiStationDisconnected, ARDUINO_EVENT_WIFI_STA_DISCONNECTED);
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
Serial.println();
Serial.println();
Serial.println("Wait for WiFi... ");
}
void loop(){
delay(1000);
}