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I want the routers slider to turn on and off the wwan port but I couldn’t set /etc/rc.button/BTN_8 code correctly.

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First detect the switch location, then do something.
This script only works when you move the switch, not when router power up. So you’d better put the script in /etc/init.d/initswitch (firmware 2.x) or /usr/bin/switchaction (firmware 3.x)
You will find there are a lot of script already. So you may need to modify instead of write something yourself.

The ideas are:

switch_left=$(grep -o "BTN_8.*hi" /sys/kernel/debug/gpio)

if [ -n "$switch_left" ]; then
    #this is the left side, let's use repeater. If we renamed gl_health, name it back 
    mv /usr/bin/gl_health1 /usr/bin/gl_health
    /usr/bin/gl_health &
    uci set wireless.sta.disabled=0
    uci commit wireless
    wifi  #if in startup script, remove this line
else
    #this is the right side, let's disable repeater and repeater manager. We also rename gl_health so that it will not called up by the UI or other scripts
    killall /usr/bin/gl_health
    mv /usr/bin/gl_health /usr/bin/gl_health1
    uci set wireless.sta.disabled=1
    uci commit wireless
    wifi #if in startup script, remove this line
fi
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Thanks, this worked (almost). It doesn’t reconnect to the wwan provider when the connection is re-enabled.
If I turn autoconnect on in the GUI it connects even when the wwan should be disabled.

If I knew the codeline which enables/disables autoconnect, or the one that connects manually to a host, I could make it work.

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The reconnect process is gl_health, that’s because the process has been renamed when you disable it.