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Create a Wi-Fi QR code for guests

Print a QR code that joins your Wi-Fi network without anyone typing the password, and know why the static one belongs on the table tent.

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Guests point the camera at a card on the table and the phone offers to join the network. Nobody reads a password out loud, and nobody types one wrong.

Availability

  • Plan: every plan.
  • Where: QR Codes → Create QR Code → Wi-Fi.

Before you start

Have the network name and password in front of you, spelled exactly as the router has them — capitals included. A Wi-Fi code that carries one wrong character fails silently: the phone tries, fails to authenticate and offers nothing useful to the guest.

Know your encryption too. Almost every network today is WPA/WPA2, which is the default here.

Steps

  1. Open QR Codes and select Create QR Code.
  2. Choose Static and select Continue. For a printed network card this is the right choice — see below for why.
  3. Under Select QR Type, choose Wi-Fi.
  4. Fill in: - Network name — the SSID, exactly as it appears in the phone's list of networks. - Password — the network password. - Encryption — WPA/WPA2 for a normal network, None for an open one. - Hidden network — turn this on only if the network does not broadcast its name.
  5. Give it a Title for your own list, then select Create QR.
  6. Download it and print it at a size somebody can scan from across a table — a code smaller than 2 cm across is a bad bet on a phone held at arm's length.

Static or dynamic for Wi-Fi

Static is usually right. The network details live inside the image, so the phone joins with no internet at all — which matters, because a guest scanning your Wi-Fi code has no connection yet. That is the whole point.

A dynamic Wi-Fi code puts a CodeQR page in the middle. The guest lands on a page showing the network and password, and has to join manually. It counts scans and it can be edited after printing, but it needs data to open, and a guest with no signal sees nothing.

Pick dynamic only when you expect to change the password and the guests will have mobile data anyway.

Verify it works

Forget the network on your phone first, then scan. The phone should offer to join by name and connect without asking you to type anything. Testing while already connected proves nothing.

Test on an Android and on an iPhone if you can. Both support Wi-Fi codes, but a wrong Encryption value tends to fail on one before the other.

Troubleshooting

You created a dynamic code. That is the CodeQR page doing its job. Create a static one for the printed card.

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