cron to change WiFi SSID at 11pm?

[Adrian O'Shea]

pushing my luck as a newbee, got two teenage kids and want to disable their wifi at 11pm week nights (sun to thurs) and midnight friday & saturday. Comes back at 5am following day

i've seen I can cron tab turning the whole wifi off/on, but curious if i can do a ssid change which they dont know the password of night-time ssid?

ssid = daytime
day range: sunday - thurs
time range: 5am - 11pm
day range: fri - sat
time range: 5am - 11.59pm

ssid = night-time
day range: sunday - thurs
time range: 11.01pm - 4.59am
day range: fri - sat
time range: 0.01am - 4.59am

just seeing if this is viable.

thanks in advance, Adrian.

 

[JDB]

If you do “nvram show | grep ssid” you’ll find the parameters that need to be set (with nvram set name=value).

Not sure what the command is to restart the WiFi but I’m sure someone else does.


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[JDB]

Oh, and change ssid to wpa_psk to find the Params to change the password (important that bit!)


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[Adrian O'Shea]

Oh, and change ssid to wpa_psk to find the Params to change the password (important that bit!)


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wow thank you JDB, didnt expect the answer so soon!

 

[Adrian O'Shea]

will have a play round with this next weekend, i've changed my ssid and wpa PSK details obviously before posting;


admin@RT-AC68U-6F18:/tmp/home/root# nvram show | grep ssid
wlc_ure_ssid=
wl0.2_ssid=ASUS_Guest2
wlc1_ssid=
rc_support=mssid 2.4G 5G update usbX2 switchctrl manual_stb pwrctrl WIFI_LOGO nandflash meoVoda movistarTriple app reboot_schedule ipv6 ipv6pt PARENTAL2 dnsfilter dualwan pptpd openvpnd utf8_ssid printer modem wimax webdav rrsut cloudsync media appnet timemachine hdspindown diskutility nfsd dnssec email dblog bwdpi snmp tor HTTPS letsencrypt ssh vpnc repeater psta wl6 optimize_xbox wifi_tog_btn user_low_rssi bcmfa rog tcode usericon stainfo cloudcheck realip cfg_sync amas bcmwifi
wl0_ssid=daytime
wl1.2_ssid=ASUS_5G_Guest2
wl_ssid=daytime
wlc_ssid=
size: 53089 bytes (12447 left)
wl0.3_ssid=ASUS_Guest3
wl0.1_ssid=night-time
wlc0_ssid=
wl1_ssid=daytime
wl1.3_ssid=ASUS_5G_Guest3
wl1.1_ssid=night-time
admin@RT-AC68U-6F18:/tmp/home/root# nvram show | grep wpa_psk
wl0.2_wpa_psk=
wl1.1_wpa_psk=Password#2
size: 53089 bytes (12447 left)
wl_wpa_psk=Password#1
wl0.3_wpa_psk=
wl0_wpa_psk=Password#1
wl1.2_wpa_psk=
wlc0_wpa_psk=
wlc_wpa_psk=
wl1_wpa_psk=Password#1
wl1.3_wpa_psk=
wlc1_wpa_psk=
wl0.1_wpa_psk=Password#2

 

[JDB]

Hopefully this thread gives you the WiFi radio restart part of the puzzle
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/turning-off-wireless-in-merlin.32264/

Let us know if you achieve it! I don’t need this yet but in a few years my kids will definitely be requiring similar [emoji23]


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[Adrian O'Shea]

Hopefully this thread gives you the WiFi radio restart part of the puzzle
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/turning-off-wireless-in-merlin.32264/

Let us know if you achieve it! I don’t need this yet but in a few years my kids will definitely be requiring similar [emoji23]


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Thanks JDB, my boys are 12 & 15, latter is doing his GCSE's this year (senior school exams) and see he's still on the WiFi at 12-1am, so needs his sleep retraining.
suspect i need to write a 2x scripts (that I can call via a cron job) to change the WiFi parameters and a 3rd to simply restart the wifi.
will let you know how i get on.
thank you for the help, appreciated.
cheers, adrian