#!/usr/bin/env python # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along # with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. # # Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc. # # # This example starts or stops a wifi hotspot # # Configuration settings are described at # https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/1.0/ref-settings.html # import dbus, sys, time bus = dbus.SystemBus() service_name = "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" proxy = bus.get_object(service_name, "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings") settings = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Settings") if len(sys.argv) != 2: print("Usage: %s " % sys.argv[0]) sys.exit(0) # Get the device object path based on interface name iface = sys.argv[1] proxy = bus.get_object(service_name, "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager") nm = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager") devpath = nm.GetDeviceByIpIface(iface) # Get a proxy to the wifi device and get the active access point's object path proxy = bus.get_object(service_name, devpath) props = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties") active_ap_path = props.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device.Wireless", "ActiveAccessPoint") if active_ap_path == "/": print("%s is not currently associated" % sys.argv[1]) sys.exit(0) # Get the active access point's SSID and BSSID ap_proxy = bus.get_object(service_name, active_ap_path) ap_props = dbus.Interface(ap_proxy, "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties") raw_ssid = ap_props.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AccessPoint", "Ssid") bssid = ap_props.Get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.AccessPoint", "HwAddress") # Convert the SSID from a byte array to a string, assuming ASCII encoding ssid = "" for c in raw_ssid: ssid = ssid + chr(c) print("%s is associated to '%s' (%s)" % (sys.argv[1], ssid, bssid)) sys.exit(0)