Solved Wireless radio timer for AI Mesh node

ducky124 said:

buy a smart outlet and let it turn the Mesh node router on and off

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Milan said:

Possibility too, but I don't want to switch it off. Is there a way to switch off the radio from the command line?

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wl -i wl2.1 status

SSID: "PRIMARY NETWORK SSID-6GHz"

wl -i wl1.1 status

SSID: "PRIMARY NETWORK SSID-5GHz"

wl -i wl1.1 down

wl -i wl1.1 up

wl -i wl2.1 bss down

wl -i wl2.1 bss up

ExtremeFiretop said:

Yes there is, but you need to know which wireless interface you want to turn on and off. (I think RTRMON can help with this if you aren't sure which interface is which)
If you want to determine which radio is which without installing RTRMON I think you can use the below wl commands. For example:

1. If I run this command on my node:

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wl -i wl2.1 status

I get this output:

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SSID: "PRIMARY NETWORK SSID-6GHz"

2. If I run this command shows me the 5GHz interface SSID:

Code:

wl -i wl1.1 status

Output is:

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SSID: "PRIMARY NETWORK SSID-5GHz"

So with this, I can confirm that the interface name "wl2.1" is for my 6GHz SSID/interface and "wl1.1" is my 5GHz interface.

3. Then, assuming that I want to take offline the 5GHz interface; i can run this command:

Code:

wl -i wl1.1 down

To bring it back up I do:

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wl -i wl1.1 up

Ideally you can only disable the bss (Basic Service Set) itself. The usual way is:

Code:

wl -i wl2.1 bss down

And to bring back online:

Code:

wl -i wl2.1 bss up

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