WiFi hotspot with hidden SSID

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Hi, is it possible to create a wifi hotspot with hidden SSID?
There’s no such option in dietpi-config and I wasn’t able to find a way to do that, even without dietpi-config.
Thanks in advance for any help.

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Found this one

You can configure hostapd(the hotspot daemon) manually to do this by adding the following line:
ignore_broadcast_ssid=1
to the bottom in the /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf file.
Then you have to restart hostapd, the hotspot service, with:
sudo systemctl restart hostapd.service
And you will have a hotspot with a hidden SSID.

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That worked, thank you so much!
I really searched it a lot, but didn’t find this one.

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