Do not require a wifi password to connect Improv.

[abliss]

Summary

Attempt to fix #5018 by not requiring a WiFi password to connect an Improv device.

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Link to pull request in Documentation repository

Documentation: home-assistant/companion.home-assistant#

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I have not tested this at all; it's just a wild guess.

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[jpelgrom]

I have not tested this at all; it's just a wild guess.

You can easily test this by downloading the artifact for this PR (scroll to the bottom, you must be logged in to GitHub to download). The app installs alongside the production app. Please let us know if it works as this seems like a niche use case.

(I'm unable to test this - my consumer-grade router simply does not allow a wireless network without a password, as it should.)

[abliss]

Thanks! I tested the artifact and it works great.

(I'm curious why you think it "seems like a niche use case". I googled and clicked on the first link which claimed that "A 2022 report from PC Matic found 89% of people don’t have a password set up on their wifi". I certainly am not vouching for the report's methodology but what leads you to believe it is so wrong? Also, naively and without data, I would guess that the percentage should be even higher amongst Home Assistant users, just because they are more likely to be tech-savvy enough to understand that wifi passwords are pointless and counterproductive.)

[jpelgrom]

Approving to match the core config flow.