Hello guys, newbie here (not technical). I want to add an emoji to my router ssid name but I’m not sure how…Found this forum thread but still not sure how it’s done – https://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/32799/how-to-put-special-characters-on-ssid. I’m not sure when and where should I add this command line “/interface wireless set X ssid=”\65\78\61\6D\70\6C\65\20\F0\9F\92\BB" and how do I find my x value. Should this command line be added to terminal (not sure even how to open it up). Can somebody give me the exact steps I should take to make this work? Thank you very much
Use this tool:
https://r-1.ch/mikrotik-unicode-ssid-generator.php
Yes, I saw that but I’m not sure when and where should I add this command line “/interface wireless set X ssid=”\65\78\61\6D\70\6C\65\20\F0\9F\92\BB" and how do I find my x value. Should this command line be added to terminal (not sure even how to open it up)?
Oh my gosh that is awesome!
It is a CLI command, replace the X with the name of your wireless interface. Or if you only have one wireless configured you can just do:
/interface wireless set [find] ssid="\65\78\61\6D\70\6C\65\20\F0\9F\92\BB"
The “[find]” will make it affect all wireless interfaces, which is handy if you only have one wireless interface but don’t want to bother with what its name is.
Simply paste it into the terminal/console.
wow thanks a lot
This link may help you to find suitable emoji:
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
/interface wireless set [find] ssid="\F0\9F\92\A3\F0\9F\92\A9"
With the suggestions here I’ve made the script a bit more user friendly.
Cool, but it does mean that it won’t return an error if no interface is named that.
But I guess the user will just know that the SSID didn’t change, so it likely is better in the end.
Thanks, for some time I was looking for this I could not find the result in mikrotik!
Why emoji ssid don’t work anymore ? Is working only on older ROS ?
And you tried with what version?
well…with latest ones. now with 6.47
I am in the dark what does this capability provide??
Cool SSID showing up on your pc/phone.
Like this ssid:
I am happy >
just tested with 6.47.1 and all fine
/interface wireless set [find name="wlan1"] ssid="\F0\9F\90\8C\F0\9F\98\88\F0\9F\92\A9"
https://r-1.ch/mikrotik-unicode-ssid-generator.php
https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html (copy from “Browser” column)
Works fine on 6.46.6 too.
Didnt work at all.
For example the generator gave me this
/interface wireless set [find name=“wlan1”] ssid=“\55\2B\31\46\45\38\2C\55\2B\31\46\45\39”
I replace the name with the correct name, and all that shows up in the SSID name is the emoji code that was translated into the above.
Fricken useless. Thanks for the joke LOL
The client (OS/driver/etc) also has to know how to translate that SSID into an emoji.
Windows 7 doesn’t know how to do that for example. Windows 10 does.
No joke. Just.. not for production. Not all clients will show what you intended to be seen
You must change it via terminal, you cannot do it in winbox wireless settings.
Which client you used to see the emoji ssid?
Note: U+1FE8, U+1FE9 are not emoji characters…
I use the windows terminal in winbox.
I got those character codes from the emoji list from a link in this thread, I used the SSID translator to turn this into /34/45/56 type code, I put that code into windows terminal as instructed and the result was crap at least on my iphone. THe SSID showing was the U+1FE8 for example,
THe only thing I can think of is perhaps one cannot use two emoji characters? OR the fact that I insered a comma between the two and thats what screwed it up. If so what is the proper way of inserting two emojis or an emoji plus text (no comma?)?