wpa_cli connection to hidden ssid

Question

I have a raspberrypi ZeroW that I am trying to connect to a network with a hidden ssid. I know that I could add this line "scan_ssid=1" to my wpa_supplicant.conf file for setup that way, however I would like to do all of the network configuration through wpa_cli.

The man page does not seem to have anything on hidden ssid's and when I run the set command it does not provide the output of all the variable options as stated in the man page I just get: "Invalid SET command - at least 2 arguments are required."

tldr: connect to hidden ssid through wpa_cli only

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '20 at 12:36

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$ wpa_cli

> add_network 
x
> set_network x ssid "hidden_ssid"
> set_network x psk "secret"
// ALLOW CONNECT TO HIDDEN SSID 
> set_network x scan_ssid 1
> enable_network x
> save_config
> select_network x

answered Jan 18 '20 at 12:36

ceph3us

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 11 '23 at 18:23

While not quite exactly what I was looking for, I was able to get it running.

This was through Raspbian's rapsi-config utility.

Steps were as follows:

Run the rasps-config command with root privileges.
Choose the second option: "Network Options"
Enter SSID and Passphrase
Find and open your "wpa_supplicant.conf" file. Mine is located in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Add the following line to the appropriate network: scan_ssid=1. For example:

network={
     ssid="NETWORK_ID"
     scan_ssid=1
     psk="NETWORK_KEY"
}

Reboot, and should auto connect to hidden SSID network.

wpa_cli connection to hidden ssid

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