Truly WiFi Extender

Usage

1. Connect to Access point created by the Raspberry Pi.
2. Open up a browser and navigate to http://raspberrypi.local:5000
3. Fill up the SSID and the psk
4. Click the connect button. Wait for some time(2-3 minutes). Pi will restart itself and now it is good to go!

Dependencies

• Python 3.x
• wifi
• flask

How to use

• Navigate to the webui directory using cd webui
• Run the command sudo python <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://app.py">app.py</a>

You can set the server to auto-start on boot using systemd

So, for simplicity of naive users, i will be running a web server(flask, to be precise) in which we need to input the SSID and psk of to AP to which we want to connect. Server still in development. systemd service is ready

• Create a file called server.service using cd sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/server.service
• Add the following contents to the file

[Unit] 
Description=WiFi conf server 
After=multi-user.target

[Service] 
Type=idle 
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/webui/app.py
 
[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Enable the service using sudo systemctl enable server
• Start the service using sudo systemctl start server

Used responsive framework to desgn the captive portal

I noticed that it will not be feasible to change the wifi-supplicant file every time when you want to connect to a new wireless AP, so i am developing a method to connect right through the browser.  Started out late with this idea. Just finished the UI