Why Wi-Fi network list is shown every time?

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#1

Hi everyone!

I just wonder why this menu is showed every time I enable Wi-Fi:

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In majority of cases, I just want to connect to a known / home network, so having one more step seems to be excessive? This menu is not going away until a user chooses a network.

I don’t remember in which Sailfish OS version was this menu introduced, can’t recall it on SFOS 2 releases. Every other mobile OS I know connects to a known network automatically, if it’s available. Wouldn’t it be more logical to show Wi-Fi choosing menu just if no known Wi-Fi networks are available?

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#2

Please note, that you might have more than one network visible at once. Ie. in corporate environment it is usual to have both a guest WiFi DMZ network and an internal one with higher security.

#3

Sure, but I guess in such cases a user usually goes to settings or toggles Wi-Fi options in control center. In majority of cases I think a user usually connects to one known network

#4

I just tap below the menu to close it.
And yes it usually is annoying.

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#5

Sense or nonsence may depend on personal flavour, but important question is imho: Is this behavior of the device intended by Jolla or is it a bug?

#6

It is not. I have 4-5 visual networks where I live, but only one configured, and that is the one mostly automatically connected.
It happens now and then, that I’m asked which network to connect, but definitely not every time I activate WLAN.

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#7

For me it asking every time, on Sony 10 III with SFOS 4.6 as well.

I agree with @smyru that there are some cases where choice is good, but this menu should never show up if only one of networks is configured

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#8

This behaviour changed a few years ago, it used not to be the case.
I also wondered why it always opened when there is just my home network to connect to.

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#9

Maybe it’s displayed when you have more than one WLAN SSID configured per location. In my case, the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz SSIDs have different names from each other; this is also true at home and at work.

#10

My home router provides a single 2.4 / 5 GHz network (all WiFi bands are using the same WiFi name and password), still the menu shows up

#11

The network list should be shown after enabling wlan if after 5 seconds it hasn’t automatically connected to anything. And it should have been this way since 2015.

There could be some device specific differences on how fast the connection is made. Could consider increasing the timeout just a bit.

There’s also dconf to disable the whole thing, “dconf write /apps/jolla-settings/wlan_fav_switch_connection_dialog/rise false” probably does the trick.

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#12

Is the timeout value configurable?

#13

Yea, /apps/jolla-settings/wlan_fav_switch_connection_dialog/scanningWait as milliseconds (default 5000) should do the trick.

Could be eager to hear results if someone tries increasing the value on what’s enough to avoid the unnecessary connection selector.

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#14

Great to hear there’s both disable and changing time interval options.
In my case C2 usually needs 8-9 seconds to turn on Wi-Fi module and then connect to my home network, so I set 10 seconds for selector and it works perfectly

#15

Thanks. The 10 second delay starts to be a bit long. Since the list is shown in response to enabling wlan, it shouldn’t take too long to keep the connection to the action. A bit thinking would it be just better to disable this functionality by default. These days it should be easier to open the connection dialog manually.

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#16

Well, C2 is to blame here, as it just spends too much tome to connect, still I think this menu would be nice to have as an option in WLAN settings (and maybe set to 7 seconds by default?)

#17

A nice addition would be a Notification after the timeout, similar to the Update Available one.

“Please select WiFi connection”

Tap it to open the selector.

#18

Oh no, not one more notification 🫣