Thanks for this addition, it's good because a few other WLAN interfaces also support ap.status("stations"), namely cyw43 (stm32 and rp2), esp-hosted, ninaw10 and esp32.

Unfortunately those existing implementations don't really follow any standard about what they return! Some return a a list of 1-tuples of MAC, some return a list of IPs.

We need to standardise on something and document it. What you have here, namely a list of 2-tuples of MAC and IP, seems like a good choice. The thing with a tuple is that it could be extended in the future to add new entries, and that's backwards compatible.

But the first entry in the tuple should just be a bytes object of the MAC. You can easily hexlify this in Python via .hex(":").

We need to standardise on something and document it. What you have here, namely a list of 2-tuples of MAC and IP, seems like a good choice. The thing with a tuple is that it could be extended in the future to add new entries, and that's backwards compatible.

That makes sense, thanks for letting me know. I admit I haven't looked at what other ports did as I thought that different ports had different WiFi capabilities exposed to user code.

I'll look at other ports' code later today to see what information is available for connected stations, and see if a followup PR can be submitted to align the ports on that regard. Those changes, if made, will be put behind MICROPY_PREVIEW_VERSION_2 of course.

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