Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 14:07 Post subject: Creating an iPhone app for dd-wrt interface
I've been trying to think of a good iPhone app to create and after trying to use the dd-wrt web interface on my iPhone today, I thought a web app interface would be great.
I guess my first question has to be, would this be allowed? (I don't want to be getting sued by anyone lol)
Second, would dissecting the current web interface give me enough to work with on how the settings are sent/received from dd-wrt?
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 15:17 Post subject: Re: Creating an iPhone app for dd-wrt interface
ddaddy wrote:
I've been trying to think of a good iPhone app to create and after trying to use the dd-wrt web interface on my iPhone today, I thought a web app interface would be great.
I guess my first question has to be, would this be allowed? (I don't want to be getting sued by anyone lol)
Second, would dissecting the current web interface give me enough to work with on how the settings are sent/received from dd-wrt?
DD-WRT is Linux, Linux is open source, so everybody may use and modify it. According to a GPL interpretation, it is still copyrighted, but it is open source. _________________ 2 times APU2 Opnsense 21.1 with Sensei
2 times RT-AC56U running DD-WRT 45493 (one as Gateway, the other as AP, both bridged with LAN cable)
3 times Asus RT-N16 shelved
E4200 V1 running freshtomato 2020.8 (bridged with LAN cable)
3 times Linksys WRT610N V2 converted to E3000 and 1 original E3000 running freshtomato 2020.8 (bridged with LAN cable)
I didn't really get past the first hurdle.
I've spen all day looking at the HTML and I would have to scrape every individual detail to display and wouldn't be able to submit changes.
Shame there isn't an API to interface with the settings.
I didn't really get past the first hurdle.
I've spen all day looking at the HTML and I would have to scrape every individual detail to display and wouldn't be able to submit changes.
Shame there isn't an API to interface with the settings.
Thanks for the pointer
I've managed to get a telnet connection and read every variable from the nvram.
There around 1500 of them! I just need to work out which is which.
I don't suppose there is a variable list anywhere?
I'm not making any promises on what it will actually do lol.
I'm fairly new to iOS programming (I have 2 apps on app store) but this should be simple (I hope).
I've got a telnet connection working and pulling the variables from nvram. The hardest part will be going through the list of 1400 variables and working out which one if which, then display them.
Then work on letting you change them.
I'm not making any promises on what it will actually do lol.
I'm fairly new to iOS programming (I have 2 apps on app store) but this should be simple (I hope).
I've got a telnet connection working and pulling the variables from nvram. The hardest part will be going through the list of 1400 variables and working out which one if which, then display them.
Then work on letting you change them.
Cheers, although the very first one you have is DD_BOARD which i've found has the Router Model name.
I'm seaching in the vars for what's being displayed on the web interface to display the same info.
I could do with 1 or 2 people to test out what I have so far. It works on mine, but if it doesn't work on anyone elses then theres no point me continuing.
Anyone wanting to help, I need your UDID number from your iOS device. There's plenty of free apps that will get this for you, just search UDID on the app store.
Cheers, just pm me your UDID number and I'll sort something out for you to test tomorrow (I'm on UK time).
I've made good progress today as I've found some old source code with the web interface and I can easily identify most of the variable names.
However the htm files contain some function calls I just cannot find for getting memory usage, and live connection data etc..
Cheers, just pm me your UDID number and I'll sort something out for you to test tomorrow (I'm on UK time).
I've made good progress today as I've found some old source code with the web interface and I can easily identify most of the variable names.
However the htm files contain some function calls I just cannot find for getting memory usage, and live connection data etc..
For memory usage use:
free>/tmp/memory.txt
or
nvram show|grep freee _________________ 2 times APU2 Opnsense 21.1 with Sensei
2 times RT-AC56U running DD-WRT 45493 (one as Gateway, the other as AP, both bridged with LAN cable)
3 times Asus RT-N16 shelved
E4200 V1 running freshtomato 2020.8 (bridged with LAN cable)
3 times Linksys WRT610N V2 converted to E3000 and 1 original E3000 running freshtomato 2020.8 (bridged with LAN cable)
Been working on this all weekend. The old web interface source was just getting the nvram variables, tatsuya46 tested it for me and some weren't displaying for him.
I've got the latest web interface source and it's a lot more complex, obviously because of the growing number of compatibility types of routers. I got a few more variables working but now I'm a bit stuck. Its not as simple as grab a variable from nvram as different variables are used in different cases.
There seems to be global variables like HASWIFI and MADWIFI that I can't figure out where or how that are being set.
Also there's different function calls I can't track down like nvram_get (I know what this is doing) and nvram_status_get which I know are part of httpd.
