Best way to do out-of-box setup (language, timezone, password) from CLI?

RobinS · 2018-10-26T07:05:55.757Z

If I have a lot of devices to configure, I’d rather not go to to the web page for the device, I’d rather do everything from a script instead.

I know I can set timezone and password from CLI. I don’t know about language, I don’t know if this is just the language for the web UI, or if it is a system setting.

Assuming I can set all three of these, is there anywhere else I need to tell the device to never show the initial setup menu again?

Thanks.

nopro404 · 2018-10-26T07:59:02.314Z

I use Ansible. There is a module for setting uci variables I use called lefant.openwrt-uci.

I’m guessing the language is the first one here:

root@GL-AR300M:/var/log# uci show | grep -i lang
glconfig.general.language=‘EN’
luci.main.lang=‘en’
luci.languages=internal

RobinS · 2018-10-26T08:14:31.171Z

Thank you, I will try this.

And good to know it’s possible to provision using Ansible, it’s on my to-do list to try it

nopro404 · 2018-10-26T09:36:36.760Z

Here is a GitHub Gist of my bootstrap for openwrt to get you going.

I then have a separate role called openwrt that this bootstrap playbook references. All the configuration goes into that role.

RobinS · 2018-10-26T10:08:21.867Z

Thanks very much, I’ll take a look!

kennethrc · 2018-10-26T17:56:19.384Z

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