Hey everyone,
I am making a custom OpenWRT build, and one of the things I wanted to do was simplify LuCI's wireless menu, especially the WiFi network edit screen.
I want to remove some of the options and tabs, as to make it easier to use for a newbie.
I have done a few searches online, but came up with nothing. Does anyone have any info for me? I am developing in openwrt-23.05.
Is your WAN Ethernet?
You have to make a custom luci install by remove the luci package suite and install the individual luci packages except for the luci-wireless package.
But then the whole wireless menu go away. If you want it to look different you need to write a custom luci code for that package.
You probably want to modify this file: https://github.com/openwrt/luci/blob/master/modules/luci-mod-network/htdocs/luci-static/resources/view/network/wireless.js and depending on how you're building, either create a patch or bundle a modified file.
I want to know why they have anything thing that is editable; they must have configured them.
They do not make themselves, and those that can be edited can, also, be removed.
To be honest I don’t really know what you mean?
“They and them”, well that is pretty much we.
Remove or change…
This is open source firmware, you can do what ever you want with it, if you know how to write the programming languages in use and then build it from source code.
My bad:
I thought you were using Luci.
I do use Luci, mostly for overview.
But still, the package Luci is only a package suite, it doesn’t contain anything by itself. It only gathers all the luci packages and install them as a batch.
So you don’t need the luci package, you only need some of the luci-* packages. And the luci views you want to see. And the crypto solution you like.
But if you do a modified luci install you need to be careful not to install something that have the luci package as a depenable.
Yes, yes it is. But may I ask why is this relevant?
Yup, yesterday this is where I was at, but every single change I have made in that file has resulted in a error within forms.js, maybe I was making some mistakes.
For example, I removed line 918 from wireless.js, and I got the forms.js error. Maybe I will need to delete every instance of that ss.tab?
Yup, my custom build is on the lean side, I pretty much just have things a dumb-ap needs, and that goes for LuCI as well. I removed a lot of the menus, editing the already present ones is what I'm working on now
I just, totally, misunderstood the post:
I thought you were the newbie in a china shop and I did not understand you must be setting this up for someone else. I thought you wanted to remove the setup not the feedback.
You want to keep the config and hide the wireless from Luci.
Yeah, that is out of my ballpark.
Not hide it completely, just boiling it down to changing SSID and password and some other things. This will make it much more friendlier to newbies. But yhea that is the gist of it
Happy Thanksgiving! 
Got it working just as I intended using your suggestion, thanks mate!
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