Force Wifi Connect re-prompt?

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Hi there, anyone have any recommendations for forcing Wifi Connect (specifically the balena blocks version) to re-prompt for wifi credentials? Doing some modification and testing and am struggling with a way to test the first boot users experience.

Is there an easy way to make forget the existing credentials without re-flashing?

Thanks!

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Hi there,
You can plug your SD-Card into another PC or connect via SSH.

  • There is a partition called resin-bootand inside a folder called system-connections
  • inside there you should find a file called resin-wifi-01 (or something like that)
  • In that file you will see a few blocks, one of them being [wifi] and another one being [wifi-security] there should be the ssid and the psk saved, if you edit/delete those fields, then wifi-connect will not recognize the wifi networks anymore, and will prompt the credentials page again.

Give it a try and let us know if you have anymore questions

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Thanks @JuanFRidano thats what I was hoping to not have to do. Trying to do this on a Fin inside a sealed up enclosure. Presumably that means there is no other way to do without altering the device physically?

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Hi barryjump,

Use balena Dashboard to ssh into the device’s hostOS. From there cd /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections and delete the file with the network configuration you want to remove. This file will have the name of your network like: yournetwork.nmconnection
When the WifiConnect restarts it won’t be able to connect and will launch the portal.

Hopefully, this should work!

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@rmorillo24 thanks a bunch for the tip, works like a charm.

One more semi-related question re: hot swapping system-connections. Can that be done for loading a new (not added to the img) cellular connection profile as well? I’m hoping that I could simply drop the profile in the folder, reboot and then it would work the same as if I had modified the img before the devices first boot?