Raspberry Pi (and Linux) Wifi Repair Automation

This bash script checks for wireless internet connection and, if it is failing, tries to fix it.

Prerequisites

• Download and install requirements:
  sudo apt-get install ifupdown fping -y

How to use

• Clone (or download) this repo locally:
  git clone https://github.com/ltpitt/bash-network-repair-automation.git
• Edit your root user's crontab:
  sudo crontab -e
• This line will execute the check every minute. Please customize the script path according to the folder where you cloned the repo:
  * * * * * /yourpath/network_check.sh
• If you also want to reboot in case wifi is not working after the fix uncomment the required lines in the code (you'll find a detailed explanation in the script comments):
  nano network_check.sh
• If you want to perform automatic repair fsck in case of reboot (this is the last possible recovery action) remember to uncomment fsck autorepair editing rcS with the following command:
  sudo nano /etc/default/rcS

Bonus - Push notifications / Email

If you want to add push or email notifications when your network is restored please check my other repo, Simple Notifications

Release History

• 0.0.2
  • Refactored in order to remove tmp files and preserve Raspberry's SD card
• 0.0.1
  • First working version using tmp files to keep count of the network check retries

Meta

Davide Nastri – @pitto – [email protected]

Distributed under the GPL license. See LICENSE for more information.

Bash Wifi Network Repair Script

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/ltpitt/bash-network-repair-automation/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request