Connecting To The Internet With The Raspberry Pi Pico W (via WiFi)

Let's connect our Raspberry Pi Pico W to the internet! In this guide we'll connect to a WiFi network, query a webpage, and get the current time from a server. This is the first step to success with wireless projects on the Pico W!

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[WintonMc]

Thank you for posting such a concise and helpful bare-bones video.

[ronkline]

Thank you so much !!! I was expecting the Pico-W to show up as a drive or volume. You pointed out how to set up Thonny. That's what made it work for me!!!

[belspace]

Rarely seen so clear explanation ...Thx a lot

[rurichan]

this tutorial was so straightforward and interesting at the sametime

[ryanwhitaker]

honestly the most helpful video about getting info through a wifi connection. spent ages trying to figure it out before this video!

[laithqushair]

thanks for this posting this video, when I am trying this I am getting "no module named socket", how to import the module socket

[thejumperkin]

"and connect to your pico w" great explanation...

[algoboi]

is there any way one can build a wifi repeater or a extender by using pico W?

[cockyboby]

Would be great not only success scnerios to see but also errors and how to resolve them.

[Alireza.Kalantarian]

Hello, can you please help me with my problem related to setting up Bluetooth on Raspberry pi pico w 2022.
After installing the program UF2, I copy and paste it, but I get the following error message
( MPY: soft reboot
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 5, in <module>
ImportError: no module named 'bluetooth' )

[venomxl]

It give an error and does not recognize network??? Help plz!!!

[zeeshanakram]

Sir! Can we get image from a website/web server/hosting and display on a screen using pico w?

[Jürgenfs]

Hi!
Great videos. Have already explained a lot to me. But I have a problem here.
The file urequests is imported. But: Where do I get it from? Apparently I'm not good enough at searching. And if it's not a .py, how is it included? I haven't had that yet.
Please help me!!!

Greetings
Juergen

[chongtetkiong]

how about other country's time zone ?

[marcusk]

I had to change the "get" to "post" in the code to get it to work.

[QuixoticDucky]

Works great when connected to Thonny, but when standalone (using external power) just hangs (using LED to tell me whether it's connected or not). Ideas?

[petrinissinen]

You added the WiFi username and password directly to the code. How can it be done more safely so that hackers cannot brake into the WiFi network after steeling the credentials from the code?

[skeevestevens]

I am having an issue. When I copy the file to the Pico W it immerdiately disconnects and when it comes back it doesn't have the file.
This happens on multiple Macs and Windows 11 machines.
As soon as the file finishes copying, boom, disconnects.
Ideas?

[sithichook]

Dear, Can you access folder directory on the pico remotely ?

[afg]

Where do you download your network module?