Two HT-HC33 boards communicating over HaLow without a gateway — is AP mode possible?

Hi, I’m trying to get two HT-HC33 boards communicating directly over HaLow without a gateway (no HT-H7608).

Since the Arduino HaLow.h library only supports STA mode, I tried using the mm-iot-esp32 v2.10.4 SDK with ESP-IDF v5.1.4 to access mmwlan_ap_enable() . The MM6108A1 chip initializes correctly and mmwlan_ap_enable() returns success, but the AP doesn’t actually beacon — a scan from the second HC-33 finds 0 networks.

I believe the issue is that ESP32-S3’s built-in esp_wifi / esp_phy components pull in wpa_supplicant which conflicts with Morse Micro’s hostap library. Using --allow-multiple-definition to force the build to complete results in the AP not actually transmitting.

Has anyone successfully gotten two HC-33 boards talking directly over HaLow without a gateway? Is there a correct way to build mm-iot-esp32 AP mode on ESP32-S3 with ESP-IDF v5.1.4?