{"id":1202,"date":"2022-09-07T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:17","slug":"embbed-wifi-and-other-data-in-qr-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/embbed-wifi-and-other-data-in-qr-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Embbed Wifi (and other) data in QR Codes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>QR Codes can be populated with data other than URLs. The most intuitive examples are email addresses (<em>mailto:someone@yoursite.com<\/em>) and phone numbers (<em>tel:+12125551212<\/em>), as they match their HTML counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s ways to encode calendar events and handful of different ways for contact information (see <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zxing\/zxing\/wiki\/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-network-config-android-ios-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the article<\/a> for those details)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can encode mapping information by using: <em>geo:40.71872,-73.98905,100<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The encoding started us on this QR Quest was the ability to encode WIFI details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WIFI:T:WPA;S:mynetwork;P:mypass;;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, for example, if you entered<em>WIFI:T:WPA;S:My Network;P:MySecret;;<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/qrd.by\/qr-code-generator-svg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/qrd.by\/qr-code-generator-svg<\/a>, you&#8217;d generate this code, which will tell your phone that it&#8217;s information about a WIFI network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"gb-block-image gb-block-image-4c109b4d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"296\" class=\"gb-image gb-image-4c109b4d\" src=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/qr-wifi-t-wpa-s-my.svg\" alt=\"\" title=\"qr-wifi-t-wpa-s-my\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/zxing\/zxing\/wiki\/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-network-config-android-ios-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/zxing\/zxing\/wiki\/Barcode-Contents#wi-fi-network-config-android-ios-11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QR Codes can be populated with data other than URLs. The most intuitive examples are email addresses (mailto:someone@yoursite.com) and phone numbers (tel:+12125551212), as they match their HTML counterparts. There&#8217;s ways to encode calendar events and handful of different ways for contact information (see the article for those details) You can encode mapping information by using: &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Embbed Wifi (and other) data in QR Codes\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/embbed-wifi-and-other-data-in-qr-codes\/#more-1202\" aria-label=\"Read more about Embbed Wifi (and other) data in QR Codes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}