Open Wifi Hotspot connection

Haddenough · July 19, 2025, 4:35am

I have a BerylAX and and Opal and I am having issues staying connected to Cox's open Wifi hotspot network. I need to check the cox hotspot because of the data cap on Cox's network is 1.2TB and can can blow through that with all the streaming my family does. So I can connect to Cox's hotspot and go through the captive portal and all will work well for a couple hours then it loses the captive login. I can restart the router and it works fine again without having to go through the captive portal. Sometimes it may do this 3- 4 times a day. I set the auto restart and have it do it a 3:30 every morning and that does help some but I still will have to restart later on in the afternoon. So I'm not sure the fix maybe a script to restart router on lost internet connection or a plugin. I just know it's very annoying. Any help would be greatly appreciated

bruce · July 21, 2025, 10:13am

Hello,

If don't restart the router, just disable and re-enable repeater to re-connect, can it be restored?
May I confirm if reconnect portal WiFi, does it have to login/verify in this portal again?
Please export syslog once when the repeater Internet disconnect occurs, and then after restarting/re-enabling, export syslog again (no need to log in to portal again), and send it to me in PM.

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 21, 2025, 11:06am

@bruce
Is watchcat & luci-app-watchcat in the GL repos?:

https://pkgs.org/download/luci-app-watchcat

github.com/openwrt/packages

utils/watchcat/files/watchcat.sh

master

#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright (C) 2010 segal.di.ubi.pt
# Copyright (C) 2020 nbembedded.com
#
# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
#

get_ping_size() {
	ps=$1
	case "$ps" in
	small)
		ps="1"
		;;
	windows)
		ps="32"
		;;
	standard)
		ps="56"
		;;

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bruce · July 21, 2025, 11:20am

Yes, it can be installed via opkg

opkg update
opkg install luci-app-watchcat

9b9e69c2-4b75-4420 · July 22, 2025, 2:33pm

@Haddenough

Well there you go, @Haddenough. I haven't used it myself but it looks just like what you want:

Jump into Advanced Settings -> System -> Advanced Settings -> LuCI (same password as GL.iNet GUI)
LuCI -> System -> Software-> Update Lists...
- then Filter for luci-app-watchcat -> Install

Once installed you can set it to restart the network interfaces or just reboot the whole device depending on what you set for the ping timeout. You might have to poke around LuCI's menus a bit to find it.

Haddenough · July 24, 2025, 3:35pm

Great, I will give this a try. Thanks for the help!