Deactivate WIFI in Hass.io ResinOS

[James007 (Henry James)]

Is there a proper way to deactivate/switch off WIFI as it seems to randomly disconnect, Ethernet remains working. I don’t mean dummy settings and such.

Thanks.

[dumbstart (Michael Burks)]

I had this question about a week ago and was surprised to find out that the only way to do it is to power off your Raspberry Pi, I assume, and plug the SD card into a computer.

Hassio WIreless config

After you burn the image to your SD card, mount the card on your computer and edit the file: /system-connections/resin-sample (or copy it to a new file like resin-wifi which is what I did…) Edit the information so that it is something like this: [connection] id=resin-wifi type=wifi [wifi] hidden=true mode=infrastructure ssid=My Awesome Wifi Ssid [ipv4] method=auto [ipv6] addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy method=auto [wifi-security] auth-alg=open key-mgmt=wpa-psk psk=super_secret_wifi_password E…

This thread, specifically this comment, has all the steps necessary. Alas, there is no way to do it through SSH, SAMBA, etc.

Whenever I have questions I have a keyboard shortcut `sfha that expands to site:community.home-assistant.io so I can quickly use google to search the forums.

site:community.home-assistant.io disable hassio wifi

I can do all that from the search box in my broswer and sometimes I’m able to find the answer when the forum search doesn’t seem to be working out for me.

[James007 (Henry James)]

Hi and thanks for the quick reply and good tips, I’ll look into it. Weird though that something as basic as switching WIFI ON/OFF is not part of HA/ResinOS, I guess it just wasn’t a priority.

[krash (Harry)]

Hey, out of subject but, how do you do that keyboard shortcut thingy? is there an aplication in windows?

[rhomb (Ian)]

I wanted to share my solution, which was trivially easy. Simply go through the wifi setup process but give it a blank file instead the information for setting it up. Here is the wifi setup process.