Do the wi-fi extensions support soft access points?

[technoblogy]

On the ESP32 and ESP8266 you can set up a soft access point with WiFi.softAP() but this call doesn't seem to exist in the Raspberry Pi Pico W core. Is it there under a different name? If not, any plans to support it?

[earlephilhower]

AP mode is supported, but not those ESP-specific APIs yet. A simple wrapper will suffice for them. Some things (like channel(!!)) are not supported by the CYW43 driver yet, but basic starting/stopping should be a 1-liner.

We're using the WiFi/WiFiNINA compatible WiFi.beginAP() as documented https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/libraries/wifinina/wifi.beginap/ and elsewhere.

[technoblogy]

That works nicely - thank you!