[arm-allstar] Switching WIFI Conncetions Via DTMF

[Anthony (N2KI)]

Thank you Patrick.  I will check out the command lines on my system for
exactly the reasons you mentioned.

Regards,

Anthony (N2KI)









On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 12:41 AM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Yes to both, though I have done the second, I don't remember how. It
> involves writing a script to shut down the current connection, feeding
> another configuration file to wpa_supplicant with only the network you
> want to use, then running enabling the new connection, then attaching
> that command to DTMF. Duplicate for as many networks as you want to
> manually select.
>
> It is possible to prioritize WiFi networks in the WPA_Supplicant file,
> though I have gotten this wrong many times.
>
> nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_custom-wlan0.conf
>
> network={
>      ssid="wifi_A"
>      psk="HashOfA"
>      priority=1
> }
> network={
>     ssid="wifi_B"
>     psk="HashOfB"
>     priority=2
>
> NOTE:
>
> This is what got me. The highest number is tried first. You might think
> that priority=1 would get preference over priority=2, but this is not
> how it works. Thus, it will attempt to connect to wifi_B in this example
> before wifi_A.
>
> I currently have a configuration that prioritizes my phone's hotspot
> connection over my home network such that if the internet goes down, I
> can easily switch my HamVoIP nodes to my hotspot without the need to
> take down my home WiFi, which would be a complicated process due to
> having multiple access points, and would also break things on the
> network internally even if the internet connection isn't working.
>
> Right now, all of my nodes are hardwired, and the internet connection
> almost never goes down, so it's only been used in practice once.
>
> 73
>
> N2DYI
>
>
> On 6/20/2022 7:56 PM, "Anthony (N2KI) via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to prioritize which WIFI  connection the node will
> associate
> > with?  If not
> > is there a way to switch the WIFI connection using DTMF touch tones?
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony (N2KI)
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