How To Make A WiFi QR Code

I forgot to publish this a couple weeks ago, lol 🥲.

Ashamed this took me longer to figure out than it should but to make a QR code do that someone can connect to a WiFi network it needs this text:

WIFI:T:WPA;S:<ssid>;P:<password>;;

where <ssid> is the router’s broadcase name (ssid) and <password> is well… the network password.

That should do for the most part but there are some other parameters you can add which you can get from the ZXing wiki.

I tried to figure this stuff out using WPA 3.3 Spec [PDF: 520KB] and Anthropic’s Claude LLM and explain the advanced options but the ZXing wiki is better at it than me.

Know what? I’ve been doing a lot of things with QR codes lately and one thing that’s really annoying is that a lot of QR code generators are constantly trying to upsell you. This nonsense is making me want to make my own no-nonsense QR code generator, like the one by the Disenshittify Project. Given that I’ve decided to make one using Nayuki’s QR Code generator library.