ESP8266/ESP32 locked on wifi connect

[av1024]

If user pass invalid settings for WiFi, device will locked before setup() and never returns control to other code.

Some way to control over WiFi connection required. This may be at least a predefined timeout. A more complex way is external flag controlled by "hardware" timer and/or WiFi event handlers.

Both ESP8266 and ESP32 code in gatewayTransportInit() copied from trivial sample code
(latest development git, compiled with esp8266 2.3.0):

MySensors/core/MyGatewayTransportEthernet.cpp

Lines 133 to 136 in e0988e6

	while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
	wait(500);
	GATEWAY_DEBUG(PSTR("GWT:TIN:CONNECTING...\n"));
	}

and

MySensors/core/MyGatewayTransportEthernet.cpp

Lines 153 to 156 in e0988e6

	while (WiFi.waitForConnectResult() != WL_CONNECTED) {
	wait(500);
	GATEWAY_DEBUG(PSTR("."));
	}

1. This loop will never ends if (for example) wrong password provided.
2. wait potentially may produce unexpected results because transport not ready here (see ESP8266Gateway do not connect to Access Point #946)
3. User code in setup and loop never be executed so no way to reconfig or restart device

[gbrd]

It would be useful to improve that for wifi "node" (pseudo gateway with only node 0).
I have some wall switches with local relay that will not work event locally if wifi is down.
(I cannot switch on the light even with "local"/main wall switch if my box is down)

[gbrd]

For interested people, I found a workaround :
on ESP8266 gateway:
add #define MY_CORE_ONLY to avoid init of wifi "without control"
in setup initiate wifi "manually"

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200); // not done with MY_CORE_ONLY
  before(); // before is not called with MY_CORE_ONLY (but presentation() does after wifi successfull connect)
  Serial.println("setup");

  Serial.println("start wifi");
  WiFi.mode(WIFI_STA);
  WiFi.hostname(MY_HOSTNAME);
  WiFi.config(_ethernetGatewayIP, _gatewayIp, _subnetIp);
  WiFi.setAutoReconnect(false);
  WiFi.setAutoConnect(false);
  Serial.print("getAutoReconnect=");
  Serial.println(WiFi.getAutoReconnect());


(void)WiFi.begin(MY_WIFI_SSID, MY_WIFI_PASSWORD, 0, MY_WIFI_BSSID);

  Serial.println("setup END");
}

After that, if access point is down, we have only one loop() each 5 seconds (not found why).
But if in that loop() call i call WiFi.disconnect(true); (true is important).
It disconnects wifi and loop() is called normally.

Thus it is possible to implement some watchdog that calls WiFi.disconnect(true); when there is a problem == when interval between 2 loops calls is too long (maybe around 50 ms) and local stuff cannot work.
And retry to connect wifi periodically (with watchdog disabled for some seconds)

[gbrd]

Would you be ready to accept a pull request for this "issue" ? (not sure I will have enough time, but just to know for now)