wifireconnect

Python3 module to test and ensure connectivity on a network.

Rationale:

This module attemps to ensure connectivity on networks which have stability problems on traffic routing (link layer).

Requirements

You need network manager. (sudo apt install network-manager)

Installation

Install with pip

pip3 install --user -U wifireconnect

Usage

From shell:

$ python3.7 wifireconnect -h
usage: wifireconnect.py [-h] [-v] [-t TARGET] [-s SLEEP_BETWEEN] [-c COUNT]
                   [-e ESSID] [-p PASSWORD]

Run a connectivity test on a network connection(using ping) every a 's' time
and try to reconnect if that test fail.
(See your networks with 'nmcli conn')

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         Verbosity.
  -t TARGET, --target TARGET
                        Target webpage. Default httpbin.com.
  -s SLEEP_BETWEEN, --sleep SLEEP_BETWEEN
                        Time between connectivity tests. Default: 10
  -c COUNT, --count COUNT
                        Num of attemps to ping target on the connectivity
                        test. Default: 2
  -e ESSID, --essid ESSID
                        AP's ESSID.
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        AP's password.

From the interpreter:

help(wifireconnect)