wifi-repeater balena block dissapeared

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We have been using the wifi-repeater balena block for one of our projects. We use it as it’s a convenient way to setup a wifi AP on our device which then connects to sensors in the home.

I recently made some updates to our system and I discovered that the wifi-repeater block has disappeared.

What are my options here?

I noticed that there is the balena-labs-project for the wifi-repeater. I could pull that into my project and make the container as part of my build? Is there any reason I shouldn’t do this? Also, are there any licencing issues with that code as I couldn’t see a licence associated with it.

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Hello @EllisBarnwell first of all welcome to the balena community!

Could you please confirm how you were using the block?

Yes, i think you can clone the repo to your repository and use it from there without any issue. I see there is no license available, but this is an open-source project that you can use on your projects.

Let us know if that helps.

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Thank you.

That is very helpful and reassuring.

I was previously pulling in the container hosted on Balena blocks with something like the following in my docker-compose.yml

wifi-repeater:
  image: bh.cr/gh_scott_hamilton/wifi-repeater-block
  privileged: true
  labels:
    io.balena.features.dbus: '1'
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As you see @EllisBarnwell this is a block made by someone else, so feel free to publish on balenaCloud your own block from the same project.

Read more here and it should work!

Let us know if that works!