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Master - Adding the ability to connect to another STA than a node
It will be brief, I worked around and find out how to let a Node connect to a Station without it being another node. Since your project features an AP_ONLY mode, all what I had to do was to create a variable to keep setting in memory in order to add some conditions when a WiFi-station-related event occurs. I also attached examples to show how to connect to a station, without using the ESP8266WiFi library, and another that broadcasts messages from a simple webpage... I tested these modifications with 3 ESPs and it worked, so here it is, it's time to share these modifications!
P.S. This is my first time on gitlab, so I may have been too short or too direct, sorry for that...