lemmy999 wrote: 
> I am having some success with wlanpoke, but I tried to play music and
> after about 8 hours I got the red wifi symbol again.  I checked the logs
> and during an attempt to reset the wifi, it showed the message "wlanpoke
> exiting" or something like that.  ...

This "wlanpoke exiting" issue can occur for a variety of reasons, most
of them unknown. However, one reason is the existence of a WiFi access
point SSID containing an apostrophe. This will always cause the current
script to exit because the logging functions do not support an
apostrophe (i.e., single quote) in a name, and the WiFi names are logged
for troubleshooting. This is a limitation of the current software
design, which failed to anticipate things like "Jack's WiFi" as a valid
access point name, oops.

There is a proposed fix, which you can perhaps make yourself as a
workaround, shown in a later message on
https://github.com/PomDev2/wlanpoke/issues/7. This has not been included
into the development or release packages because there have been a
couple of other exiting occurrences which are/were being investigated,
so far without success. 

It looks like the development branch should be updated with this fix. To
complicate matters, the development branch includes various options for
fast reset, none of which are fully satisfactory, but which don't seem
to cause any harm, either. This might be easier than simplified
instructions for applying the workaround to the existing script. Yeah,
I've talked myself into it. Look for the workaround in the development
branch. If you don't care to use that branch, apply the workaround
manually. Alternately, ask your neighbors to remove their apostrophes
(single quotes) from their WiFi SSIDs.

This thread was started for simplified instructions, a worthy endeavor,
but I'm afraid it is kind of messed up now with all this tech talk.


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