Deploy New Wifi Configurations

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Good Morning,

Is there a way to remotely deploy a new, additional, wifi configuration file to devices?

Thank you,

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3

Hi, do you mean you need to change the wifi configuration of the already deployed devices? or you want to deploy new apps remotely with different wifi config?

4

I have an existing [deployed] device with an existing WiFi configuration and I want to add a second WiFi configuration so that it will connect when it moves between locations.

Thanks for the super fast response!

A.

5

Hi, to add multiple wifi credentials you’ll need to ssh into the device and add the wifi config in the /system-connections/resin-wifi file. to read more on the network setup you can visit https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/OS/network/2.x/#wifi-setup.

7

Is there an automated approach to copying in a new file?

8

If I understand the documentation, I can add a new file, say resin-wifi-02 to a running device in /mnt/boot/system-connections, containing another network definition and the device will then know how to connect to a second WiFi network. Is that correct?

To automate, I could build a simple app that accomplishes the above and temporarily deploy it to all the devices that require this new network. Would that work?

Thanks,

A.

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Hi, to automate this for new device, you can run balena-cli locally and generate an os file for your device with the extra files you need in system-connections. You can read more about the flag to select the connections file -c here https://www.balena.io/docs/reference/balena-cli/#-c---system-connection-system-connection.

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Once the image is generated you can provision it like you normally do.