Turn wifi on/off with a physical switch

Feature Requests
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I run the DIY Outernet receiver with a battery pack and it would be nice if there was a script or something running that would detect a button press via GPIO and have it enable and disable wifi to save on power when I’m just passively receiving data. I don’t need a hotspot for 90% of the time it is running and it seems like a waste of power.

Basically, add code to detect a button press and tell people which GPIO on the C.H.I.P. to use for a wifi on/off switch. Or allow it to be configured by the user.

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You could write that yourself as a userscript and when it turns out to be worthwhile you could
ask for it to be included.

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@pe1chl any suggestions on where to start? I have the exact same need, but don’t even know where to start writing the code or how to install it

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Hardware button would be nice.

Also strikes me that the chip has bluetooth 4.0 built in which would be lower power. RTL8723bs Bluetooth

So you could maybe access via bluetooth, switch on wifi? Switch off wifi when done?