Schedule WiFi ON-OFF on WR1043ND

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Shocker580
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 22:40    Post subject: Schedule WiFi ON-OFF on WR1043ND Reply with quote
Hello,
I'm searching a way to schedule the up and down of wireless radio.

Of course the best way is use CRON but, with which command ?

Using ifconfig ath0 down the interface goes down but with ifconfig ath0 up nothing come back..

So.. what is the right command for do this ?
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Shocker580
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 13:40    Post subject: Reply with quote
wl command don't work for nothing..

No one know how to do ?
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Shocker580
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:24    Post subject: Reply with quote
UP Rolling Eyes
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wallyman
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 18:03    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was looking for a similar thing but settled instead on just blocking devices by MAC (the kids at night) because that seemed to work. Would be interested if you find a solution to this as I would rather turn off the Kids VAP at night in case new devices are introduced or someone gets creative with MAC spoofing.
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Shocker580
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:48    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm trying to do this just for turn-off radio when is not used, not for blocking some user. But thanks the same Smile
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Harm
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:22    Post subject: Reply with quote
I had the same problem

The solution was to add a stopservice lan and startservice lan. Note that I have transmitpower at 12 db and not 20.

15 1 * * * ifconfig ath0 down; iwconfig ath0 txpower 0;
45 6 * * * stopservice lan; ifconfig ath0 up; iwconfig ath0 txpower 12; startservice lan;
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ppeter
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 22:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
Harm wrote:
I had the same problem

The solution was to add a stopservice lan and startservice lan. Note that I have transmitpower at 12 db and not 20.

15 1 * * * ifconfig ath0 down; iwconfig ath0 txpower 0;
45 6 * * * stopservice lan; ifconfig ath0 up; iwconfig ath0 txpower 12; startservice lan;


Why are these txpower settings necessary when turning on/off radio ? Isn't ifconfig ath0 up/down enough ?

Also, how do these commands look like, when I have only 'iw', and no 'iwconfig' ?

Thanks

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05dyna
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:30    Post subject: Reply with quote
I’d like to know how to get scheduling working too. I have my own thread out there asking for help but no help yet after 266 views. All I know is scheduling worked in the past on my TP-Link routers with older build 23919 but does not work with the recent builds. Maybe time to switch teams, Broadcom dd-wrt users support scheduling with a nice web interface that works
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jean019
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 19:55    Post subject: Reply with quote
Harm wrote:
I had the same problem

The solution was to add a stopservice lan and startservice lan. Note that I have transmitpower at 12 db and not 20.

15 1 * * * ifconfig ath0 down; iwconfig ath0 txpower 0;
45 6 * * * stopservice lan; ifconfig ath0 up; iwconfig ath0 txpower 12; startservice lan;



"iwconfig ath0 txpower 0" doesn't do nothing on archer C5/C7 (I found 5 dbm minimum)
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=286300
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tatsuya46
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 1:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
just deny internet access? if thats working?
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jean019
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:04    Post subject: Reply with quote
yes, but for me the idea was to cut the Wifi power transmission at night, because I'm sleeping near the router.
For the archer C5/C7, it doesn't seem pssible to go under 5dbm, or you have to shut completely wifi with another command.
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Mile-Lile
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:32    Post subject: Reply with quote
I found this from some old post, give it a try...


Code:
0 0 * * * root ifconfig ath0 down; iwconfig ath0 txpower 0
0 6 * * * root ifconfig ath0 up; iwconfig ath0 txpower 158mW; startservice lan
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