Connect your hive

Before you see any dashboard, HiveLink needs to talk to your hive's sensor pod. Do this once per hive:

  1. Power on the ESP32. If it has never joined WiFi before, it creates its own network called HiveLink-Setup.
  2. On your phone or laptop, connect to HiveLink-Setup (no password), then open http://192.168.4.1.
  3. Enter your home WiFi name and password on that page. The hive saves it and restarts, joining your network.
  4. Find its new IP address — printed on the Serial Monitor, or in your router's connected-devices list — and enter it below.
Setting this up later? Nothing will show until a real hive is connected — HiveLink never displays placeholder data.
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