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[Jamie Getty <Jamie.Getty AT reannz.co.nz>]

I feel like I’ve found a clue in my investigation.

I have learned that the geteduroam app uses the following URL to get the complete list of eduroam profiles for all organisations:

https://discovery.eduroam.app/v3/discovery.json

When I take a look at the profiles in this list, I can see that the list of configured profiles is outdated. And it looks like it has not been updated since Wednesday, since the last-modified time of the list is Wednesday 6^th May 2026.

%    curl -sSI --compressed 'https://discovery.eduroam.app/v3/discovery.json'  | grep -iE 'last-modified|date|age|etag|cf-cache-status’

last-modified: Wed, 06 May 2026 09:08:50 GMT

date: Sat, 09 May 2026 04:04:54 GMT

cache-control: public, max-age=900, s-maxage=300, stale-while-revalidate=86400, stale-if-error=2592000

etag: "fc46436b6f581fb7a93208eecb5a2f71"

age: 11

How often does this discovery list update? If I make a configuration update in our eduroam CAT organisation, it usually updates the geteduroam app within a couple of hours. To me, that seems like the discovery.json file should update relatively regularly.  So I wonder why the discovery file has not been updated for several days?

Is this something that GEANT needs to be made aware of? Who controls the discovery list? I couldn’t find that information on https://wiki.geant.org .

If anyone has any insights to this, that would be wonderful.

— 

Jamie Getty

DevOps Engineer

 

 

 

E	Jamie.Getty AT reannz.co.nz

                 

Research and Education
​Advanced Network New Zealand

www.reannz.co.nz

    

From: geteduroam-request AT lists.geant.org <geteduroam-request AT lists.geant.org> on behalf of "Jamie Getty" <geteduroam AT lists.geant.org>
Date: Friday, 8 May 2026 at 3:32 PM
To: geteduroam AT lists.geant.org <geteduroam AT lists.geant.org>
Subject: Connecting eduroam CAT to the letswifi-portal project.

Hello, I am a devops engineer working for REANNZ.

I am trying to see if I can create an eduroam CAT profile that will redirect
users to an instance of the letswifi-portal service
(https://github.com/geteduroam/letswifi-portal#) that we have running, so that
we can have them connect to eduroam using a letswifi-created profile.
In the section 'Installer Download Location', I have entered the URL of our
server, 'https://reannz.get.eduroam.nz/#letswifi'. This is based on the
instructions at https://www.eduroam.app/idp/cat/ , which say to use the URL
followed by '#letswifi'.
However, when I test this profile on the geteduroam app for iOS I get the
error:

Failed to connect
The data couldn't be read because it is missing.

What data is considered missing?
We have two profiles for REANNZ. One for regular eduroam, which works, and one
that talks to the letswifi-portal, which shows the above error.
How do I know which part of my eduroam CAT profile is misconfigured?