NAME

       comitup - Manage wifi connections on headless, unconnected systems

SYNOPSIS

       comitup [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The  comitup  service  provides  a  means  to establish a connection between a computer and a wifi access
       point, in the case where wifi is the only means available to access the computer.

       On startup, the service will attempt to connect to wifi using established networkmanager(8)  connections.
       If  this  is  not  successful,  comitup will establish a wifi hotspot with the name comitup-<nnnn>, where
       <nnnn> is a persistent 4-digit number.

       While the hotspot is active, a comitup-web(8) service is available to  manage  connecting  to  an  access
       point.

       If  two  wifi  interfaces  are  available, the hotspot will remain active on the first interface, and the
       internet connection will be made on the second. Otherwise, the hotspot will be replaced with the internet
       connection.

       In all states, avahi-daemon(8) is used to publish the mdns host name comitup-<nnnn>.local, making the web
       service accessible as e.g. http://comitup-1234.local, for systems supporting Zeroconf. For other systems,
       a comitup Workstation entry is published which is visible to Zeroconf browsing applications, allowing the
       IP address to be manually determined. The web service address is likely http://10.42.0.1.

       comitup logs to /var/log/comitup.log.

Options

       •   -h, --help - Print help and exit

       •   -c, --check - Check the wifi device configuration and exit

D-Bus Interface

       Comitup provides a  D-Bus  object  which  claims  the  name  com.github.davesteele.comitup  on  the  path
       /com/github/davesteele/comitup,  supporting  the  interface  com.github.davesteele.comitup. The interface
       includes the following methods.

       •   get_info()

           Input: None

           Output: DICT_ENTRY

           Return information about the current Comitup service. The keys are as follows:

           * _version_ - The package version.

           * _basename_ - The currently configured basename (default **comitup**).

           * _id_ - The unique random numeric id associated with the service instance.

           * _hostnames_ - A list of host names that are published for the service
             IP address.

       •   access_points()

           Input: None

           Output: Array of DICT_ENTRY

           Return a list of visible access points. This is represented as an array  of  D-Bus  DICT_ENTRY.  Each
           DICT_ENTRY  contains  strings  associated  with  the  following  keys,  ssid, strength (0 to 100) and
           security (encrypted or unencrypted).

       •   state()

           Input: None

           Output: state, connection

           This returns strings for the current comitup state (either HOTSPOT, CONNECTING, or CONNECTED) and the
           ssid name for the current connection on the wifi device.

       •   connect()

           Input: ssid, password

           Output: None

           Delete any existing connection for ssid, create a new connection, and attempt to connect to  it.  The
           password may be a zero length string if not needed.

       •   delete_connection()

           Input: ssid

           Output: None

           Delete the connection for ssid. The system will not be able to reconnect using this connection.

COPYRIGHT

       Comitup is Copyright (C) 2016-2017 David Steele <steele@debian.org>.

SEE ALSO

       comitup-conf(5), comitup-cli(1), comitup-web(8)

                                                  February 2018                                       COMITUP(8)