Feature request: wifischedule - Add option to select SSID

[forcefullpower]

What would you like to see in luci?

The wifi schedule looks great but only works for disabling the whole wifi. Could you add an option in to just disable a specific SSID so I can use it to setup a kids only wifi that turns off. Would be great to be able to manage kids usage.

[systemcrash]

The wifischedule package does not provide this.

[stokito]

It looks like such kind of functionality should be implemented on network level, not just a WiFi. There is a separate FR on this #6009
. I guess there are some advanced firewalls for this, please let me know if you know. This would be a good thing for a security in office.
Disabling the SSID while keeping others won't save electricity so it wasn't implemented in the tool.
If you do really need this you may try to make a cron job yourself.

[bracklanna]

I am currently using something like this (with a few more mechanisms, implemented as a shell script) to disable only specific wifi SSIDs while leaving other SSIDs active:

uci set wireless.@wifi-iface[0].disabled=1
uci commit wireless
wifi

Above, @wifi-iface[x] corresponds to each SSID, where x = 0, 1, 2, .... n up to the number of configured SSIDs.

There is definitely a specific use case for this functionality. For example in a home with separate SSIDs such as "IoT Devices", "Home Office," and "General," it is useful to leave "IoT Devices" SSID active at all times, 24/7, as it has security cameras etc. on it. "Home Office" might also stay active at all times, while "General" might only be available from 6AM-9PM daily so that children using it are cut off when it's time for sleeping.

Similar examples could apply in institutional environments like businesses, non-profits, industrial settings, etc.

As far as separate scheduling for ethernet-connected devices, of course that would need to be implemented at the network layer.

Just shutting off the SSIDs for wifi is simpler, faster, easier to implement, and also communicates much more directly to users that their access is cut off. Instead of the wifi indicator on their device showing a normal connection (3 or 4 bars of reception, etc.), yet their internet just "stops working" at a certain time (confusing,) rather they are kicked off wifi completely, the Wifi connection indicator goes dark or blank, and they are unable to reassociate their device.

[stokito]

You probably can try uci set wireless.guest_iface_0.disabled='1' where the guest_iface_0 is an id of the ssid config section

[bracklanna]

Thanks, I'll try that at some point & update here if it works. That would be clearer & therefore preferable as a syntax.