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rafrsr
Asked: 2017-06-24 14:56:49 +0800 CST

Restart Wi-Fi Hotspot automatically on Ubuntu 17.04

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I'm using a hotspot on Ubuntu 17.04 to share my Internet connection with other devices. But when I restart or suspend the computer, I need to activate the hotspot manually each time.

Is there some option, script, or command to launch the hotspot automatically after wakeup?

wireless

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    you can do it with Network Manager. Check the name of the connection which represents the hotspot that you want to start when its active or just guest 

    nmcli con show

    then to make it start automatically

    nmcli con mod <connection-name> connection.autoconnect yes

    test it with reboot

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  2. You could open a terminal and type 

    nmcli device wifi hotspot ssid YOURSSID

    If it brings up your Hotspot you could create a file using 

    gnome-session-properties

    to let your Hotspot start on system startup. But I am not sure if this will also do the trick if your machine comes up from suspend.

    Maybe then you would need to create two files with 

    sudo touch /etc/pm/sleep.d/your-script 
sudo touch /lib/systemd/system-sleep/your-script

    Edit them both with 

    sudo -H gedit /lib/systemd/system-sleep/your-script 
sudo -H gedit /etc/pm/sleep.d/your-script

    and paste

    #!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
  post|thaw)
    echo "waking up..."
    nmcli device wifi hotspot ssid YOURSSID 
 ;;
 esac

    into them. Then you would need to make them both executable with 

    sudo chmod a+x /etc/pm/sleep.d/your-script
sudo chmod a+x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/your-script

    and try your luck again...

    The script works on my machine, but as I am connected only wireless and I am using the same name of the SSID for the test of the Hotspot and after a while, even after sleep, the adapter connects to the standard wifi operations and the Hotspot is getting disabled and wifi is getting enabled.

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