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Aug 3, 2017 at 17:43 comment added Tim This popular question on Arduino.SE gives all the ways to connect an Arduino to WiFi. It mentions both the Arduino WiFi Shield and the cheaper ESP8266 chip. However, if you click through the link, it says the WiFi shield is retired. Why is that? Am I better off with an ethernet shield?
Aug 3, 2017 at 17:18 comment added Majenko The Arduino WiFi Shield maybe?
Aug 3, 2017 at 16:56 comment added Tim If the built in WiFi chip does not work because the Arduino Uno WiFi is new and still in development, can you recommend a good WiFi shield that has been around a while, is supported by the community, and works with the Uno and its variants?
Aug 3, 2017 at 16:43 comment added Tim That GitHub link is just the repo to the "Arduino Uno WiFi Dev Ed Library", which I already installed through the library manager window in the mac desktop IDE. The ReadMacAddress example program in that library prints "Please, push the ESP B/L button on the board and plug the USB cable before run the sketch," but after doing both things, it doesn't work. Interestingly, I see "Arduino-Uno-WiFi-823889" in the list of WiFi networks on my computer. Is that a sign that it does work and I am just doing something wrong? I bought two Arduinos, and neither can connect.
Aug 3, 2017 at 5:02 history answered Majenko CC BY-SA 3.0