compal-wifi-switch 0.2.0

CLI tool to switch on/off the wifi module of a Compal cabelmodem (CH7465LG/Ziggo Connect Box)

Compal-Wifi-Switch

A command line tool to switch on/off the wifi sender of a Compal CH7465LG cablemodem.

Wifi radiation should be turned off if not used (better for your health and for IT security reasons). Unfortunattly the Compal CH7465LG cablemodem does not offer a physical button to switch on/off the wifi module. There is also no configuration possible to switch the wifi module on/off based on a time schedule (e.g. switch off during night).

The compal-wifi-switch tool can switch wifi on/off via a command line interface. The tool can be installed on a server where Python runtime is available (NAS, Raspberry Pi, etc.). To schedule compal-wifi-switch you can use cron or any other scheduling mechanism.

Installation

Using pip

1. Install python3.7 or higher
2. Install compal-wifi-switch with pip install compal-wifi-switch.
3. Run compal-wifi-switch with compal-wifi-switch --help.

Without pip (e.g. on Synology DSM)

1. Download package from PyPi (tar.gz) to your server.
2. Run the following commands:

# Install
user@dsm:~> tar xfv compal-wifi-switch-<version>.tar.gz
user@dsm:~> cd compal-wifi-switch-<version>
user@dsm:~/compal-wifi-switch> python3 setup.py install --user

# Run
user@dsm:~> python3 ~/compal-wifi-switch-<version>/compal_wifi_switch/main.py --help

Usage

usage: main.py [-h] --host HOST --password PASSWORD --switch {on,off}
               [--band {2g,5g,all}] [--guest [GUEST ...]] [--version]
               [--verbose]

Compal-Wifi-Switch configuration

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --host HOST           host name or IP of compal cablemodem, or use env
                        variable COMPAL_WIFI_SWITCH_HOST
  --password PASSWORD   password of compal cablemodem, or use env variable
                        COMPAL_WIFI_SWITCH_PASSWORD
  --switch {on,off}, -s {on,off}
                        wifi power state to set
  --band {2g,5g,all}, -b {2g,5g,all}
                        band to switch power state for (default = all)
  --guest [GUEST ...], -g [GUEST ...]
                        list of guest network mac-addresses to activate while
                        switching ON wifi
  --version, -v         show program's version number and exit
  --verbose             verbose logging

Credits

• Using compal_CH7465LG_py by ties to communicate with Compal cable modem.