I was recently installing a German equipment that came with both wired and wireless interface. Under factory reset / initial install state, it creates a default wifi STA that stays alive only for 15 minutes if no one connected. The idea is to offer connectivity to complete installation without a "Wired only" mode.
Now a days, many laptops have stopped providing a wired Ethernet port and that makes finding a wired cable, and then a wired docking to connect to openwrt to install a chore.
Would the power that be consider this as an interesting feature to add?
Generally this as been done with a custom image. With the creation of the Firmware Selector, this no longer required folks to setup thier own buld machines.
Super duper. I will study this and then try it. I wonder though.. It says after the first boot, it gets deleted. Does this behavior return after it has been factory reset?
Most routers do have an RTC (AFAIK) but they are not battery backed up. It uses a time server to sync the time. And, yes, I do mean a AP. I made a mistake by saying STA.
This is really a cool tool. Thanks for sharing. I normally set up roaming and use wpad-openssl in place of wpad-basic. I have some follow on questions:
For example, Netgear R6100 has following packages in its installed packages:
Can I overwrite the wpad-basic-wolfssl with wpad-openssl?
And, If i wrote luci-app-samba4, will the system automagically pull in all the dependencies before it offered the custom image?
And since Openwrt uses lower and upper to combine two different files directors in an overlay, will the factory reset revert back the wireless AP settings that were input in the "Script to run on first boot (uci-defaults)"