Hello.

I have a router with two connections on one radio. One is sta mode, and the other is ap mode. I would like to find a way to disable any and all sta mode connections via a UCI command, which I will trigger by checking to see if that sta mode connection is connected, if possible.

I need to do this as the ap mode will drop if the sta mode loses signal (It's a sort of longstanding bug).

In pseudocode, since I can't seem to find the syntax for exactly what I need:

do while true
  do for all sta in interfaces:
    if not sta_connected
    then sta disable=1
    endif
  end
  sleep 120
end

Preferably, I would disable the sta mode interfaces so as not to save it in flash (also to make it last longer), so that when I go somewhere else and turn the router on it brings up the sta interfaces and, after they have had a chance to connect, disables the disconnected one(s).

Perhaps I could also add a script activated by a button to manually bring up all the sta mode connections for if the router is still on.

button --> do for all sta in interfaces
  sta_disable=0
end

I feel as if this could be useful to a lot of people, as this keeps coming up and seems to be a wontfix, but I have not found a solution that does not involve multiple copies of config files.

I don't know about UCI script, but if you are conversant with shell, check out this post:
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=64507

Thank you, nenekofi. That looks like exactly what I was trying to find. I will test it out immediately!

Crud. That did not quite work. It is saving the disabled state in flash, so it never connects again. I know that could be fixed by enabling it every boot, but I would prefer to save wear on the flash.

Do you have a command to disable it that persists in RAM only?

I can work out the rest of the script now, but I need a selective disable for sta ifaces that does not save to flash. Is that possible?

Thanks very much, though!