Raspberry Pi/Wifi Auto Restart

Requirements

• /etc/network/interfaces

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

Watchdog script

• /srv/scripts/wifi_watchdog.sh

#!/bin/bash
check_interval=60
router_ip=192.168.111.1
log=/var/log/wifi.log.

# make sure we aren't running already
what=`basename $0`
for p in `ps h -o pid -C $what`; do
        if [ $p != $$ ]; then
                exit 0
        fi
done


# log settings
exec 1> /dev/null
exec 2>> $log
echo $(date) > $log



startWifi () {
        #dhclient -v -r
        # make really sure
        #killall dhclient
        #iwconfig $wlan essid $essid
        #dhclient -v $wlan

        echo "restarting"
        #ifdown wlan0
        #ifup wlan0
}



while [ 1 ]; do
        ping -c 1 $router_ip & wait $!
        if [ $? != 0 ]; then
                echo $(date)" attempting restart..." >> $log
                startWifi
                sleep 1
        else sleep $check_interval
        fi
done