karlicoss/bt-wifi-reconnect

Make BT Wifi great again

BT Wifi logs me out for no apparent reason several times a day.. so I wrote a cron script to reconnect me every few minutes!

If it detects a lack of internet connectivity, it runs a virtual browser (phantom JS) and logs you in.

Setup

Recursive clone is important since I am using submodule!

git clone --recursive [email protected]:karlicoss/bt-wifi-reconnect.git

Running

cp config.py.example config.py
vim config.py # type in path to phantomjs, and your credentials
python3 check_and_reconnect.py

Adding to cron

1. crontab -e
2. add an entry like this */2 * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /full/path/to/script/bt_check_and_reconnect.py, this runs the script every two minutes

Easy peasy!

Prerequisites

• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• phantomjs (see config.py.example for more details)

bt-wifi-reconnect's Issues

BT WiFi Login Site Pages have Drastically Changed Recently?

I do not know yet if this script still works, I'm awaiting the next kick from the network. I'll update this to fix it if I encounter any problems.
Recently BT WiFi changed their SSID and updated the initial page for the Login Domain.

Also I'm Curious Why You Decided on Such an Elegant* Solution Compared to Simple wget HTTP POST?

• I have chosen this solution over the simpler solutions because this is far more reliable because of its design.
  And I appreciate the effort you've put into this compared to the 5 minute scripts that hit wget.