Disabling the default AP with SSID of esp_xxxxxx

[fahirad]

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General issue report

Hello all,

I see that when I flash my esp32c3 with esp-at project, the Wi-Fi driver gets initialized by default and both access point and station mode are started, resulting in a new network with a name ESP_xxxxxx where these x's represent the last 6 characters of the MAC address.
How do I disable it? I want to be able to enable the driver itself and the custom ap network in certain cases, so I don't need this default behaviour.
I am familiar with the command AT+CWINIT=0 which will disable it, but how do I save this setting so that on reset it doesn't get started again?

Thanks ahead for any clarification!

[bschousek]

Have you confirmed that the AT+CWINIT=0 is not persistent through reset? I seem to recall that issuing the command once writes it into some non-volatile memory that only gets changed the next time that you flash the firmware.

[ustccw]

@fahirad @bschousek you can send AT+CWMODE=0 to make it.