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ngoonee

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connman hooks?

I have to change over to connman (was using NetworkManager and prior to that netctl) as I'm experimenting with wds so I can miracast to a smart TV, and wds requires connman.

Connecting to networks isn't hard, but I'm not sure how to duplicate netctl's hooks/interfaces (which run scripts on networking going up/down or for various interfaces) or Networkmanager-dispatcher (which does the same in a more init.d style). There's a 5-year old project called connman-dispatcher[1], but surely something basic like this would be built-in?

[1] - https://github.com/a-sk/connman-dispatcher

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rsmarples

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Re: connman hooks?

Why does WDS require conman?

seth

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Re: connman hooks?

wds/sink and wds/desktop_source do, intel "vendor lock-in".
libwds itself doesn't.

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progandy

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Re: connman hooks?

It looks like it depends on the P2P API provided by connman, e.g. RegisterPeerService. I don't know if NetworkManager has any of that or how that can be achieved without it.

Edit: connman does not have an interface to run scripts, you have to listen to dbus events and react to those.

Edit: rsmarples, this is about Wireless Display Software for Linux OS (WDS), not Wireless Distribution System (WDS)

Last edited by progandy (2018-09-30 08:20:07)

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

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Re: connman hooks?

Edit: connman does not have an interface to run scripts, you have to listen to dbus events and react to those.

Sigh, was afraid of that. Time to dig up my old network-monitoring scripts.

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