esp8266-sniffer | easy experiment which uses the ESP8266 wifi module | Wifi library

I'm trying to make my ESP8266 sniffing nearby devices, then posting them by with a HTTP request. With purpose is to record when my roommate and I are at home. Then in the future, trigger certain tasks like turning on/off the lights if we're home or not. I don't care at all about the packets content just the mac addresses.

So fare I've found this, script that prints out the mac adresses for nearby devices, created by kalanda: esp8266-sniffer. Aswell as this HTTP posting script ESP8266 http get requests.

I've tried to combine those two and in the callback function make the ESP send the found data, but doesn't look like the ESP establish the wifi connection.

I tried using different WIFI modes: STATION_MODE, SOFTAP_MODE, STATIONAP_MODE. None of them worked for both sniffing and http request at the same time. I know that the STATIONAP_MODE do have some flaws. What I've found is that it has to switch both somehow, but unfortunately I'm not a ESP expert and don't know how this can be done.

Here is my code(srry for any rubbish coding on my side):