LUCI - file (config) web editor page

[johnv]

It will be nice to have a page where we could edit the configuration files thought the Web Interface.

[psherman]

Are you talking about editing the raw text files? (the whole point of the LuCI interface is to have a way to edit the configuration files, but obviously this is with a GUI rather than raw text edits).

Two ways of doing this already exist (via the linux CLI piped up through the LuCI interface):

package: luci-app-commands

package: luci-app-ttyd

And it has been discussed in the past... the general consensus is to use an app on your computer (winscp, other methods) to transfer and edit the files).

Editor for config files in LUCI

Is there an editor for use within LUCI to edit config files or do we have to use SSH (which is tedious) If not I think it ought to be on a Dev wish list.

Adding a file browser, file text editor and tty command shell for LuCI OpenWrt

This thread is initially about adding file browser, text editor and a console to openwrt's web interface. Adding a uci configurator would be a nice to have, but already covered by having a functionnal console in the web interface. And making this discussion about the metadata of the validator of the uci configurator of the web interface, sounds to me like a derailment. But sure, I can answer that So the metadata, it's in the wiki already, and it's really nicely formatted. A simple trip to c…

[stokito]

See related https://github.com/openwrt/luci/pull/6553

[johnv]

I think it will be nice if there was a webui file editor as example like the one on Frigate nvr.

to edit config files on the fly on the ui

[johnv]

This is how the config WebUI config editor looks in Frigate:

[N_o]

luci-app-ttyd not working and bad documentation