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Reputation:

How to programmatically change OSx WiFi state using a script

I am looking for a way to programmatically toggle the WiFi state of my laptop using a script. I am using MacOS (formally OSx).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 148

Answers (1)

Dov Benyomin Sohacheski
Dov Benyomin Sohacheski

Reputation: 7732

I have an alias in my .zshrc:

alias wifi:on="networksetup -setairportpower en2 on"
alias wifi:off="networksetup -setairportpower en2 off”

You need to change en2 to the correct network adapter on your machine.

You can list all adapters using: networksetup -listallhardwareports

You can also extract this logic to its own script or function that receives the network-id as a variable.

> ./toggle_wifi --id=2

Update

This question was also asked apple.stackexchange and has a few well received answers. There is also a Gist of a working version of the script.

Upvotes: 1

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