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I used the WiFi antenna of a laptop to wirelessly install ESPHome on an ESP32 (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by qaz to c/mildlyinteresting

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[–] mystik 7 points 2 weeks ago

I was about to say -- you probably don't want to connect the wifi antenna plugs of two cards into each other -- that'd probably overdrive each other's receiver and damage the cards or cause other issues, unless you had an attenuator in there somewhere. But it looks like you're just using the antenna loop from the laptop into the esp32 ...