Enabling Wi-Fi on First boot

[Enrico Mioso]

Hi Petr!

As you may guess from the thread, the community doesn't want or like to have this feature "easily" accessible due to it's security implications.
Still, for me having this feature would be very very helfpul.



On Thu, 8 Jul 2021, Petr Štetiar wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2021 09:39:33
> From: Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz>
> To: Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org>
> Cc: Enrico Mioso <mrkiko.rs at gmail.com>, openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> Subject: Re: Enabling Wi-Fi on First boot
> 
> Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> [2021-07-07 15:10:59]:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Feel free to check this out, it's not ready yet but should give an idea:
>>
>> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4349
>>
>> More sophisticated setups are not supported this is merely used to allow
>
> are not supported for *now*, but once folks notice this, they'll of course try
> to extend this for their use case and thus bloat it further. BTW why is
> wireless so special? Why there is not default config for example for LTE or
> ppoe as well?
>
> Sorry, but I don't like this, as you're solving just one very simple use case,
> adding stuff which would never be enabled in official images. IIUC this
> feature can't be used from imagebuilder either, thus folks would need to
> always build the images from scratch, which seems to be overkill just for
> tweaking config. Or am I missing something?
>
> The standard way for doing such tweaks is `files` directory, which has clumsy
> UX. If you want to improve that UX, you're probably looking for something like
> ucentral[1] is doing. Having some default image configuration specified in
> ucode/YAML (would probably need YAML support added into ucode first) and then
> generate those uci configs into respective `files` directory. BTW this should
> be external project, no need to have this in the tree, it would make CI/QA
> much easier etc.
>
> 1. https://github.com/blogic/ucentral-schema/blob/main/renderer/templates/interface/ssid.uc
>
> -- ynezz
>