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I'm trying to get the WiFiManager code to work. I've stripped out everything else out of my sketch to make sure that no other code may be interfering, but no matter what I do, powering the ESP and running iw dev wlan0 scan | grep SSID from my system yields a bogus SSID of:
SSID: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00

. . . wha?