Kindle Touch 5.1.0, How to turn on/off wifi in a script?

[wisecrick]

Like turn on/off wireless in the menu
not just ifconfig up/down wlan0
I wanna restart wifid, but if I don't stop wifi first, the GUI sometimes crash.

[ixtab]

The Wiki, especially the section about LIPC, is your friend here.

The "Interesting handlers / actions" contains information about how to peek and poke around LIPC.

I merely fetched the output from "lipc-probe -a -v", took a look at it, applied a bit of common sense, and after 5 minutes of trial-and-error arrived at the commands below.

For this particular case:

# disable WiFi
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.cmd wirelessEnable 0

#enable WiFi
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.cmd wirelessEnable 1

It works for me (though I haven't tested what it does if no Wifi connections are specified, or available, etc.)

If you find this useful, and/or if you find out more about how exactly it behaves, you're more than welcome to add this information to the Wiki as well.

[wisecrick]

I'm sorry to say, there is still something wrong.
It seems the WIFI is turned off on the GUI, but Kindle still connects to the AP after a while automatically.
But if you turn off wireless manually in the menu, it won't do that.

So I think I need more steps to turn off wireless completely.

Thanks

[richy1989]

Originally Posted by ixtab

# disable WiFi
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.cmd wirelessEnable 0

#enable WiFi
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.cmd wirelessEnable 1

It works for me (though I haven't tested what it does if no Wifi connections are specified, or available, etc.)

If you find this useful, and/or if you find out more about how exactly it behaves, you're more than welcome to add this information to the Wiki as well.

If I want to let the kindle connect to Wifi between 7:00~8:00 AM,then turn it off automatically at 8:00 AM,
What can I do to edit the file '/etc/crontab/root'?
Just like

0 7 * * * lipc-set-prop com.lab126.cmd wirelessEnable 1
0 8 * * * lipc-set-prop com.lab126.cmd wirelessEnable 0

Is it right?